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A GUIDE

TO

BOOKS ON IRELAND

Edited by

STEPHEN J. BROWN, S.J.

(Author of "A Reader's Giiide to Irish. Fiction")

PART I.

Prose Literature, Poetry,

Music and Plays

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ADVERTISEMENT.

Circumstances having rendered impossible the com-
pletion of the " Guide to Books on Ireland " on the
scale originally intended, it may be well to state here
what portions of it the author hopes to complete.

In addition to the present volume, material has been
gathered for two further volumes — Volumes II. and
III. of the series. Owing, however, to lack of leisure,
their publication has been postponed until next year.

Vol. II. will contain the following sections : Bio-
graphy (including autobiography, memoirs, and family
history). Tours and " State of Ireland" (chronologically
arranged), and Ecclesiastical Works, i.e., books relat-
ing to religion in Ireland. There will be descriptive
notes on the majority of the works included, and it
is hoped that the volume will be a useful supplement to
the usual bibliographies of History.

Vol. III. will contain the remaining sections, classi-
fied by subjects and indexed by name of author and
probably, by titles. In this volume, owing, as has
been said above, to unavoidable circumstances, the
titles will in many cases be given unaccompanied by a
note.

Though it has been thought well to announce these
volumes at once, their appearance will in reality depend
on the reception accorded to the first volume. More-
over, their greater or less completeness will depend on
the help given to the Editor in their compilation.

GENERAL PREFACE.

§ 1. Why this book 9 — This book needs at the outset
some formal justification of its existence. Perhaps all
books do in these days. Yet this book, it may be,
Less than others, from one point of view at least. For
it may claim exemption, in some degree, from the in-
herent guilt which attaches to almost every new book —
that of adding to the number of those that already
exist, and thereby to the bewilderment of the modern
reader. For it aims, as every book-guide does, not to
increase, but in a manner to lessen the number of
books to be read. Because when an indifferent book
is set beside books that are valuable it ceases, to all
intents and purposes, to exist for one who has a care
for what he puts into his brain. And in our " Guide "
we have tried to perform this service for many in-
different books.

Yet even if its claim of lessening the number of
books to be read appear somewhat far-fetched, a book-
guide may, at least, consider as its due the merit of
enabling the harassed reader and student to see order
where before was confusion, much as the modern town-
planner drives his avenues and boulevards broad and
straight through a tangled maze of lanes and alleys.

The need of reducing to order the ever-growing mass
of books, of making the cataract of print, as Frederic
Harrison calls it, flow into ordered channels, has long
since been amply recognized. Not to go outside of
Ireland, as far back as 1724, Dr. Nicholson, the then
Lord Bishop of Derry published his Histwical

GENERAL PEEPACE. Vll

lAbrary " pointing at most of the authors and re-
cords in print or manuscript which may be serviceable
to the compilers of a general history of Ireland." ^
Since then similar works in ever-increasing numbers
have been appearing, sometimes, like Dr. Nicholson's,
focussing all the literature of a particular subject,
sometimes attempting to catalogue and arrange uni-
versal literature, like the Allgemeines Eur.opdisches
Bucher-lexicon " of Georgi, published at Leipzig in
1745-B8, 11 vols., or Brunet's Manuel du Libraire,
1860-80, 7 vols.'

It soon became necessary to classify and to catalogue
the bibliographies themselves. As early as 1810 we
have Peignot's Repertoire de Bibliographies. And in
recent times there have become possible books with
such titles as Hcmdy Book about Books lohich Re-
late to Books (by J. Sabin, 1877), and Biblvograj^hie
des Bibliographies (by L. Vallee, 2 vols., 1883-7);
while I have before me a little book entitled Book
Selection (1909), which might very well call itself a
Guide Book to Book-Guides.^

But I wish to call particular attention to one class of
such Guides, the need for which has become clearer in

'Even earlier than this Ware had published his Berum
Hihernicarum Scripiores Veteres.

^ It is said that the only approximately complete attempt at
a universal bibliography is the catalogue of printed books in the
British MuseuTn, but this is not available to the general public.

3 In Stein's Manuel de Bihliographie Generate there are
no fewer than 720 pages devoted to the description of biblio-
graphies of all kinds. In A Mamial of Practical Bibliography,
by James Duff Brown, there is a useful little resume on the
subject.

yiii GENERAL PBEFACB.

the last decade or so,' viz., book-guides intended, not
primarily for the library specialist, the collector, the
scientific bibliographer, but for the average reader. Of
such there is an ever-growing production of recent
years. To mention only the newest, there are the
admirable guides to Fiction of Dr. Baker, Mr. Jonathan
Nield, and (in French) the Abbe Bethleem; there is
Sonnenschein's The Best Books : a reader's guide to the
choice of books, a new edition of which is being
issued; the Annual Class-List of Best Books of the
English Library Association; the annual English
Catalogue of Books; and Standard Books, an im-
portant new publication (1911), by Messr-s. Nelson, in
four large volumes.^

But if so many book-guides exist, one may well ask :
What need of a new one for books on Ireland? My
first reply must be that in all such works Ireland
figures, naturally enough, but little. Bat I think
there are other good reasons which may be given for
publishing a guide to books on Ireland.

The first point is this, that as books about Ireland are
written in English, they are like a rivulet that trickles
into the great flood of the literature printed in that lan-
guage — almost as wholly swallowed up and lost.
Moreover, unlike America, which, of course, also pub-
lishes in English, Ireland does but little of her own

'The great need of the present time is, not so much good
notes for the catalogues of particular libraries, as series of guide-
books .to books for the use of all." — Dr. E. A. Baker, in Savage's
Manual of Descriptive Annotation.

2 The Editor may be pardoned this fond insistence on the
numher of volumes in these publications as a partial response to
possible reflections on the number of his own.

GENERAL PREFACE. IX

publishing. Many a book dealing with subjects most
vital for Irishmen issues from London printing presses
and London publishing firms. English firms do not
trouble to keep such books in print and Irish
firms — for there are few civilized countries that
read less than Ireland — cannot afford to re-
print them, and thus in a few years they are
scarce, and in a few more are forgotten. And that, let
it be observed, almost irrespective of their value.
Surely it is a good task to recall them to remembrance,
especially when, as in our days is the case, we can
better afford than in the past to recall them to life.

§ 2. Aim. — Such reasons, it will be seen, are not the
bibliographer's reasons for his work, and this book is
not intended for bibliographers. Indeed, I scarcely
think that bibliographers, if they notice it at all, will
quite like its methods. Not but what it may have its
uses for librarians and other book specialists, and I
trust it will, but it is meant in the first place for other
classes of persons usually grouped together under the
title of the " general reader." Nor — and this I had
occasion to say in a former work ' — do I wish that this
humbler aim should serve as a cloak to needless lack
of accuracy and completeness. For to the presence of
these qualities the general reader has no less right tlian
the expert. The Editor has striven, therefore — and this
is true also of his collaborators — to be as far as possible
accurate and complete without forgetting that this is
intended as a work of "vulgarisation " rather than as
a contribution to bibliographical science.

§ 3. Scope. — To what Irish books is this intended to
^Readers' Guide to Irish Fiction, Pref.

X GENERAL PREFACE.

be a guide? The answer: "to all books dealing with
Ireland, published up to November, 1911," may seem
to imply a somewhat extravagant claim. But it will
appear less so on examination. In the first place, under
"books" are not included pamphlets, except a few that
have become historic and some others that are still
" actual." Not that a bibliography of such pamphlets
would not be most valuable. But their inclusion here
was, for reasons of space, simply not possible; and it
was doubtful if its usefulness would bear any propor-
tion to the great extra time and labour it would have
required.^ As to the approximate completeness of the
lists of books in the various sections, that must be left
to the judgment of the reader. The Editor merely
claims for these lists that they are the result of five
years' careful search in a very large number of biblio-
graphical sources to which he has been so fortunate as
to have access. Moreover, in most cases these lists have
been revised and supplemented by specialists in the
various departments of Irish bibliography. For the
classification the Editor himself is largely responsible,
though to a certain extent suggestions have been taken
from the systems adopted in Mr. Sonnenschein's Best
Books Nelson's Standard Books, and other such
works.

I have not included books in the Irish language. My
reasons for this are threefold. In the first pla<3e, my
own knowledge of Irish is not yet sufacient to enable me
even to edit notes of books in Irish. Nor, on the other
hand, have I been able to find any competent person

1 For the same reasons no attempt lias been made, except in

the section dealing with the bibliography of the Theatre in Ire-
land, to include articles from magazines and other periodicals.

GENERAL PREFACE. XI

with leisure for such a work. In the second place, I
do not think that a bibliography of works in Irish
should be made a mere appendage and sub-section, as
it would inevitably be, of a work such as the present.
Lastly, it may well be doubted whether the time be yet
come for doing this work in the way that it deserves
to be done.

§ 4. Notes. — The notes constitute, perhaps, the main
feature of this Guide, and their compilation has cost
infinitely more trouble than could the. preparation of a
bare list-. It is hoped that this trouble will be com-
pensated for by their usefulness, for, as the Editor of
the great Catalog of the A.L.A} well says, in a
book-guide intended for the general public descriptive
notes are indispensable. They would seem especially
needed in the case of books on Ireland, for in almost
all of these there is lurking controvers}^ In these
notes criticism, without being excluded, is sub-
ordinated to description. Of their shortcomings,
i.e., of those for which he is personally respon-
sible, the Editor is only too conscious. With more
leisure he might have made the notes fuller and
more satisfactory. He might also have made them
briefer, but he lacked the time, which, as all who have
tried it know, is needed for achieving brevity.* He
has been obliged to leave them with all their imper-
fections on their head.

It is hoped nevertheless that such defects will not
seriously impair its usefulness for the objects at which
it aims.

* American Library Association.

' He would fain have followed out most fully the admirable
directions contained in Mr. E. A. Savage's Manual of Descrip-
tive Annotation for Library Catalogues.

THE PRESENT VOLUME.

§1. Title. The Editor would have liked to give a
general title to this Part of the " Guide," but failed
to find one which should cover all the contents. Yet
the various sections are closely related to one another.
All of them fall under the heading " Literature," with
the exception of Music. The latter, however, has much
in common, on the one hand, with the section that pre-
cedes it, viz., Poetry, so that such books as Moore's
Melodies, Mangan's, or rather O'Daly's " Poets and
Poetry of Munster," and " Tlie Spirit of the Nation,"
belong equally under both headings, and on the other
hand, with that which follows, viz.. Plays, musical
plays and operas being common ground.

§2. Collaborators. The Editor cannot too fully
acknowledge his indebtedness to his principal colla-
borators, Rev. Geo. O'Neill, S.J., and Messrs. T. W.
RoUeston, J. HoUoway, W. H. Grattan-Flood. The
mention of their names and of their share in the work
ought to be a sufficient recommendation of it for any-
body even slightly acquainted with Irish Literature.
But as the Editor wishes to be useful also to a public
who are scarcely, if at all, acquainted with Ireland,
he will be pardoned for entering into some details.

Mr. T. W. RoUeston^ has long been known as a
writer. In 1881 he published his translation of the
Encheiridion of Epictetus. Among his works pub-
lished since then are Grashalme (translations of Walt

' These facta are taken from ll'/io's lI7io, 1911.

THE PRESENT VOLUME. XUl

Whitman into German), a Life of Lessing, and
"Parallel Paths: a Study in Biology, Ethics, and
Art " (1908). But it is chiefly as a writer on Irish
subjects that he interests us here. In 1900 he edited
in collaboration with Eev. Stopford Brooke " A
Treasury of Irish Poetry." In 1909 appeared " Sea-
spray," a volume of poems. Since then he has pub-
lished two volumes of Irish heroic legends, " The High
Deeds of Finn " and " Celtic Myth and Legend." The
Poetry Section owes to him many valuable notes,
additions, and corrections, and he has revised both the
MS. and the proofs.

Mr. W. H. Grattan-Flood, Mus.D., has long been
prominently connected with things musical in Ireland.
His enthusiasm as a collector of every obtainable scrap
of information relating to Irish music is sufficiently
witnessed to by his three books. Notes oh these will be
found in the Music Section. A glance will show its
great indebtedness to him, yet the signed notes do not
by any means represent the full extent of that indebted-
ness.

The Eev. Geo. O'Neill, S.J.,> M.A., Professor of
English Language in the National University, to
whom I owe many valuable notes and suggestions in
the Music Section, is well-known in musical circles.
He is a member of the Feis Cecil Committee, a Vice-
President of the National Literary Society, and a
frequent lecturer on musical and other topics.

To Mr. Joseph HoUoway is solely due the entire sec-
tion on Irish Plays, together with the bibliography of

iScQ Who's Who for 1912.

XIV THE PBESENT VOLUME.

the Theatre in Ii-eland inserted in the Prose Section. I
believe it would not be possible to find another with so
thorough and so intimate a knowledge of this subject.
It is not exaggerated to say that from his student days
he has seen every play in Dublin that was worth while.
In particular he has watched from the start the move-
ment now associated with the Abbey Theatre, of which
latter he was the architect. He has written much on
dramatic matters, especially in " The Irish Playgoer,"
which he edited. For many years past he has jotted
down his impressions of every play he saw, and the
notes that find their place in the present volume are but
a fragment from the enormous mass of information
thus gathered. His note-books and scrap-books would
form of themselves a respectable library. It is to be
sincerely hoped that Mr. HoUoway's professional
duties will allow him to put into a worthy History of
THE Irish Theatre the pith of this great accumulation
of valuable and interesting material.

I here tender my best thanks to several other kind
helpers who have contributed to make this book more
complete, and notably to the Rev. Alfred Rahilly S J
and Mr. J. P. Whelan, Librarian of the Kevin Street
Public Libraries.

Other remarks bearing on classification and arrange-
ment will be found at the beginning of the various
sections.

CONTENTS

PAGE

GENERAL PREFACE v.

THE PRESENT VOLUME xii.

ABBREVIATIONS xviii.

I. GENERAL COLLECTIONS AND SELECTIONS

(PROSE AND POETRY) ... ... ... 1

II. PROSE LITERATURE.

A. Collected Works ... ... ... ... 7

B. Essays ... ... ... ... ... H

C. Speeches ... ... ... ... 26

D. Books about Irish Literature.

1. Gaelic Literature ... ... ... 36

2. Anglo-Irish Literature '.. ... 41

3. Irish Writers ... .. ... 44

4. Books about the Theatre in Ireland

(J. Holloway) ... ., ... 46

E. Miscellaneous ,,. ... ... ... 56

IV. Books about Irish Music
(o) History

(b) Instruments

(c) Irish Dancing

(d) Technical and Miscellaneous

PAGE

60

Xvi CONTENTS.

III. POETRY.

A. Collections of Irish Poetry (chronologically

arranged)

B. Works of Individual Poets ... ... ••■ 75

Poets of National Struggle... Poets of the
Gaelic Tradition... Poets of Place. ..Poets of
the Gaelic Revival... Satirical and Humorous
Poets... Irish-American Poets... The New
Movement... Recent Poetry.

ly. MUSIC.

I. Collections of Irish Music ... ... ... Ill

Early Collections ... ... ... Ill

18th Century Collections ... ... ... 112

19th Century Collections ... ... ... 116

Recent Collections ... ... ... 128

Collections of Songs in Irish ... ... 136

Some Scottish Collections ... ... 137

II. Original Compositions.

(o) Instrumental ... ... __ 14 j^

(6) Vocal ... ... ... 145

III. Items from Publishers' Catalogues (Sheet

Music) ... ... . . 2^g

153
153
155
157
157

CONTENTS.

xvn

V. IRISH PLAYS (arranged chronologically) By J.
HOLLOW AY .

Before 1700

The 18th Century

Early 19th Century (1800-1831) ...

Mid-Nineteenth Century (1832-1870)

The Seventies

The Eighties

The Nineties

The Twentieth Century — to the Present Day. Pp.
244 to end.

Note on Some Recent Plays by the Editor ..

PAGF,

159
163
173

181
207
217
229

244

INDEXES

326

ABBREVIATIONS, ETC.

c. (before dates) = approximately; sqq. = and following (years or
pages); ed. = edition, edited, editor; q.v. = which may be referred
to; b. (before a date) = born in — ; N.Y. = New York.

Bates in square brackets are those of first publication.

The ■glace of publication has been mentioned in the case of all
but Dublin- or London-published books. It may be taken, therefore,
that the book is published in London unless the imprint of one of
the Dublin publishers appears in the entry. The following is a
list of these latter: — Browne & Nolan, Catholic Truth Society of Ireland,
Duffy, The Educational Co. of Ireland (succeeding Blackie & Co., and
Fallon & Co.); Gill & Co. (fomerly MoGlashan & Gill); Hanna & Neale
(formerly William Magee) ; Hodges & Figgis (formerly Hodges & Smith,
Hodges and Foster, etc.) ; Maunsel ; Irish Messenger Office ; Ponsonby ;
Sealy, Bryers & Walker j Sullivan Bros. ; Alex. Thom & Co. Besides
these, some English firms have branches in Dublin. A list of Music pub
lishers will be found on p. 111.

I.-COLLECTIONS AND
SELECTIONS.

(Prose and Verse.)

The collected works of individual authors will be found on
p. 7, sqq. Collections of Poetry alone on p. 60, sqq.

Irish Literature. 10 Volumes. 4126 pp., exclusive of
introductory essays, averaging over 20 pp.
Originally published by John D. Morris & Co. Afterwards
taken over by the De Bower Elliott Co., Chicago, and
brought out in 1904.

Edited by Justin M'Carthy, M.P., with ihe help of an
advisory committee, including Stephen Gwynn, M.P. ; Lady
Gregory, Standish O'Grady, D. J. O'Donoghue, Douglas
Hyde, LL.D.; J. E. Eedmond, M.P.; G. W. EusseU (" A,
E."), J. J. Boche, LL.D., of the Boston Pilot; Prof. W. P.
Trent, of Columbia University; Prof. F. N. Robinson, of
Harvard; H. S. Pancoast, and W. P. Byan; with Charles
Welsh as Managing Editor.

Scope and Object: To give a comprehensive, if rapid, view
of the whole development of Irish Literature from its
earliest days. In the words of the Editor it is " an illus-
trated catalog of Ireland's literary contributions to man-
kind's intellectual store."

The Choice of Extracts is determined by two canons :
literary value and human interest. The Library gives
examples of " all that is best, brightest, most attractive,
readable, and amusing," in the writings of Irish authors.
There is no dry-as-dust. The extracts comprise mythology,
legend, folklore, poems, songs, street-ballads, essays,
oratory, history, science, memoirs, fiction, travel, drama,
wit and humour. The vast majority are chosen as being
specially expressive of Irish nationality. Choice is made
both from the Gaelic and the Anglo-Irish literatures, but
the ancient Gaelic literature is given solely in translation.
A volume (the tenth) is given to modern Gaelic literature,
the Irish text and English translation being given on oppo-
site pages. This volume also contains brief biographies of
ancient Gaelic authors. The extracts are never short and
scrappy, but nearly always complete in themselves.

2 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Other Special Features: Three hundred and fifty Irish
authors are represented by extracts. Of those one hundred
and twenty are contemporaries, the great modern mtei-
lectual revival being thus very fully represented.
The extracts are given under the name of the authors, and
these names are arranged alphabetically, bcgummg m
Vol. I. with Mrs. .\loxander, and ending with "\\ . B. ieats

in Vol. IX. , . n ^ ,■

To the extracts from each author there is prehxed a biogra-
phical notice, including, in many cases, a literary apprecia-
tion by a competent authority, and a fairly full
bibliography.

Each volume contains an article, by a distinguished writer,
on some special department of Irish literature. Thus, the
Editor-in-chief gives a general survey of the whole subject.
W. B. Yeats writes on Irish Poetry, Douglas Hyde on
Early Irish Literature, Dr. Sigerson on Ireland's Influence
on European Literature, jMaurice Francis Egan on Irish-
Novels, Charles Welsh on Fairy and Folk Tales, J. F.
Taylor, K.C., on Irish Oratory, Stephen Gwynn on the
Irish Theatre, etc.

Index of authors, books quoted from, titles and subjects
dealt with — exceptionally full and valuable (over 80 pp.)
Puhlisher's ivorl;. 1. Illustrations, over 100 (several in
colour), consisting of facsimiles of ancient Irish MSS., and
of ancient prints and street-ballads, portraits of Irish
authors, views of places, objects, scenery and incidents of
Irish interest.

2. Letterpress — large and clear type.

3. Binding — cloth, and half-morocco.

4. Price — has varied a good deal since first publication.

The Cabinet of Irish Literature. 4 Volumes. Super
roj^ 8vo ; pp. 311 + 324 + 346 + 369. (Gresham Pub-
lishing Co.) ; 8s. 6d. each. Illustrations in black
and white by J. H. Bacon, C. M. Sheldon, W.
R.\iNEY, etc., and portraits. 1903.

Ef/j-iors : Originally planned by C. A. Read, who collected
matter for the first three volumes of the original edition.
Comploted and edited by T. P. O'Connor, M.P. New
edition brought out by Mrs. Katharine Tvnan Hinkson.
^ew edition: The original edition (1879) was published bv
f I f • -^il® '^?^' edition contains about the same quan-
tity of matter, but large portions of the original edition
Jiave been omitted to make room for new matter which
occupies the whole of the fourth volume, and a large part

COLLECTIONS AND SELECTIONS. 6

of the third. A new Introduction (pp. xi.-xxxiv.) has been
prefixed. It is a general survey of Irish literature.
Scope, arrangement, etc.: The authors are arranged chrono-
logically. There is first a sketch (full and carefully done) of
each author's life and works; then follow extracts, as a
rule very short, from his works. The principle of selection
is to give such extracts as would best illustrate the author's
style, to avoid anything hackneyed, and " anything that
would offend the taste of any class or creed."
In the original edition there was, perhaps inevitably, little
of Irish Ireland, still less of Gaelic Ireland. That has been
to a certain extent remedied in the new edition. But the
old edition had the ad-vantage of containing a mass of
information about little known writers and of extracts from
curious and rare books.

Murray (John O'Kane). The Prose and Poetry of
Ireland. (New York: Collier). 3ed. 1877.
A large book, containing extracts from 22 principal authors
from St. Columbkille to Fr. Thomas Burke, O.P., includ-
ing Michael O'Clery, Steele, Swift, Goldsmith, Sheridan,
Moore, Griffin, Banim, Archb. MacHale, Grattan, Davis,
etc. There is a life, with some critical remarks (both of
poor quality), prefixed to each. This is followed by a few
pp. of Miscellanies — short specimens of writers not deemed
worthy to appear among the 22, such as Lover, Gavan Duffy,
Sir Aubrey de Vere, Wolfe, and the editor himself.

MacMahon (Thornton), ed. The Casket of Irish Pearls.
Pp. xxiv.-)-240. 16mo. (Duify). Duffy's Library
of Ireland. 1846.

Short extracts in prose and verse, chiefly of a strongly
national character, from Davis, Mangan, Carleton, Griffin,
Dr. Kane, etc. " One object we have in view in collecting
together extracts from Irish authors solely is to suggest
to our people the sources from whence alone they can draw,
unpolluted, a knowledge of their country and of what has
been jvritten of its past history." (p. x.)

Dick (Wm. B.). Irish Dialect Recitations. Pp. 170.
16ino. (New York : Dick and Fitzgerald). 1879.

"A collection of rare Irish stories, poetical and prose
recitations, humorous letters, Irish witticisms, and funny
recitals in the Irish dialect."

4 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Jennings (Rev. J. A.), M.A. leadings from Irish
Authors. Pp.256. (Dublin: Carson Bros.). l»»d.

Mr Jennings has also edited the very successful " Readings
from Charles Dickens " and " The Modern Elocutionist."
In the present book all the extracts, except four, are by
Irish writers. They are chosen, not as representative, but
as best for Reading purposes. The selection is excellent,
evidently by a reader who admires and loves Irish litera-
ture. They are very varied in character; and there does
not seem to be one which does not answer to the author's
endeavour " to bring together poetry and prose remarkable
for intellectual power, sterling pathos, moral teaching,^ or
the affording of healthy amusement." Poems of a political
complexion are not included. There is, perhaps, too much
of Lever and Lover and the like.

Sullivan (A. M., T. D. and D. B.). Irish Readings.
640 pp. (Grill). Paper covers, Is. ; cloth, 2s. 6d.

An excellent collection of pieces by Irish writers, chosen
from every class of Anglo-Irish literature, essay, history,
speech, poetry, political squib, pamphlet, sketch. Many of
the pieces included have not been published elsewhere.
With very few exceptions, all are of a high standard of
excellence.

Gill's Irish Reciter. Pp. xx. + 271. (Gill). 2s. 6d.
1905

Interesting Introduction by J. J. O'Kelly, the editor. Con-
sists of pieces in Irish and in English (both prose and
verse), about the same number of each. Taken from
modern lit. of Ireland, M. McDermott, S. MacManus, J.
Boyle O'Reilly, J. P. Meagher, Richard Bowling, Cathal
O'Byrne, Ethna Carbery, Geo. Sigerson, John Keegan,
Mrs. 'Donovan Rossa, J. P. O'Donnell, Fanny Parnell,
Cathal MoGarvey, Brian O'Higgins. Nothing by Moore.

Ford (Robert), ed. Popular Irish Readings. Pp. 128.
(A.Gardner). Is. 1910.

• Prom J. Gilkison, Archibald McGonoohie, Father Rvan
Lover Lever, Lefanu, Griffin, T. Crofton Croker, etc etc "
(adv.) Largely of the stage-Irish type.

COLLECTIONS AND SELECTIONS. 5

KiHTON (John W.), LL.D. The Standard Irish Reciter.
Pp.192. (Ward Lock). Is. Current catalogue.

The selections (prose and verse) are largely of what we now
call the "Stage Irish " type. There are few serious pieces
in the book. Nearly half the book is by Lover, and nearly
a third is anonymous. There are a large number of
dialogues.

Pearson's. Irish Reciter and Reader. Pp. 312. (C.
A. Pearson). 2s. 6d. 1904, 1906, etc.

Preface signed P. M. P. Some introductory hints on how
to recite. Divisions : — Legendary verse and prose (chiefly
folk-tales, only one piece from Irish heroic literature).
Patriotic (8 pieces, 12 pp.) Miscellaneous verse and prose.
Humorous verse and prose (pp. 179 — end). Very varied in
the style of its contents. There is little that an Irishman
would object to, but the Gaelic note is wholly absent.
Writers of all kinds are drawn upon — Moore, Lover, and
Croker, etc. Among the older and more recent writers,
Dora Sigerson, Shorter, Katharine Tynan, W. B. Yeats,
Letitia Maolintook, James M. Lowry, A. P. Graves, Theo-
dore Parkes (some fine pieces), and many others. Not more
than two or three pieces could fairly be considered vulgar.
The literary standard is good, though the best is omitted.
Many of the pieces are much too long for recitation.

O'Donoghue (D. J.). The Humour of Ireland. Pp. 432.
International Humour Series. (Walter Scott.)
8s. 6d. Illustr. 1894.

A selection of about 100 pieces from the leading Irish
humorists. Claims, and with justice, to be a thoroughly
representative selection, the few omissions being due to the
refusal of the right to reproduce. The author has almost
completely excluded the spurious rubbish which too often
passes for Irish humour — especially in England. Wa cannot
think he has quite excluded objectionable matter. The vul-
garity of some of the pieces does not seem to be quite com-
pensated for by qualities of wit or humour. Such seem
to us, " Donnybrook Fair," " Nell Flaherty's Drake,"
" Lanigan's Ball," " King O'Toole and his Goose,"
" O'Shanahan Dhu," " Whiskey and Wather," and a few
others. These seem to contrast with the genuine humour of
" The Widow Malone," for instance, which belongs to the

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same class. But, of course, this is matter of opinion. Ex-
tracts are included from Swift, Steele, Farquhar, Goldsmith,
O'Keeffe, Sheridan, Maginu, Lover, Lever, Lefanu,
Kickham, A. P. Graves, F. A. Fahy, Edmund Downey, P.
J. M'Call, and a host of others. Of very few of these writers
are more than two extracts included. The Introduction
deals critically with the history and character of Irish
Literature. At the end is a Biographical Index oi writers.
I think any Irishman will agree that the illustrations by'
" Oliver Paque " are a blot on the book. Whenever they
even attempt to be Irish they are vulgar caricatures. For
this the author was not responsible.

II.-PROSE LITERATURE.

il.— Collected Works.

The works grouped under tliis head are of a misoL'llaiicuus
and, as a rule, partially literary character. Volumes of essays
will be found in the next section. Some of these might logically
be placed hercj but I think the classification chosen Mill be found
convenient.

BuBKE (Ediiiund). Works.

There have been many editions of the complete works, but
they do not contain anything of Irish interest that is not
included in Mathew Arnold's selection : " Edmund Burke
on Irish Affairs," for which see p. 14.

O'SuLLivAN (Rev. Samuel), liemaius. 3 Vols. (Dublin).
1853.

Edited by Rev. J. C. Martin, D.D., and Rev. Mortimer
O 'Sullivan. Contains, along with theological and contro-
versial matter (Protestant), some sermons and tracts relat-
ing to Ireland; Memoirs of the Duke of Ormonde, Earl of
Chailemont, Lord Clare, Dean Kirwan, Lord Gough, Rev.
Dr. Miller, and John Sydney Taylor; Ireland in 1829; Dr.
Phelan's Life and Remains; Discovery of Emmet's Insur-
rection; Lord Roden on Crime in Irclahd; Thuggee in
India and Ribbouism in Ireland; Colquhoun on the present
state of Ireland; Knox and Jebb's Correspondence. Observa-
tions on a proposal for the reconciliation of the Protestant
and Roman Catholic Churches, etc., etc.

Phelan's (Rev. Dr. W.). Remains. Edited, with
Biographical Memoir, by the Rev. Dr. Jebb, Bishop
of Limerick. 2 Vols. 1832.

Comprises History of Policy of Church of Rome in Ireland ;
Essays; Discourses, etc.

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UssHEB (James), D.D. The Whole Works. 17 Vols.
Demy 8vo. (Hodges & Smith). 1847.

Edited, with life of author and account of his writings, by
C. R. Elrington, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity in
University of Dublin. The volumes appeared at intervals
between 1829 and 1864. They cost the University (exclusive
of payments made to transcribers, advertising, and other
incidental expenses), ^3,800. Contents Vol. I. — Life. II.-
III. — Controversy, IV. — Mainly controversy, except " Vele.
rum epistolarum hibernioarum sylloge " (a collection of
letters relating to Ireland from 592 to Giraldus Cambrensis.
In Latin, pp. 399-572. Includes Pope Gregory, St. Colum-
banus, St. Malaohy, etc.). Vols. V. and VI. — Antiquitates
Ecclesiarum Brittanioarum (oh. XVI. deals with Ireland).
Vol. VII. — Church History and Controversy. Vols. VIII.,
IX., and X. — Annales Veteris Testament!. Vol. XI. con-
tains — " The first establishment of the English Laws and
Parliaments in the Kingdom of Ireland," and " A dis-
course showing when and how far the imperial laws were
received by the Old Irish and the inhabitants of Great
Britain." Vol. XII.— Chronologia Sacra. Vol. XIIL—
Sermons. Vol. XIV. — Theology and Controversy. Vols.
XV. and XVI. — Correspondence.' Vol. XVII. — Index.

Cahill (Rev. D. W.). First American Edition of the
Works of the Rev. D. W. Cahill, D.D. Pp. 392.
12s. (Boston: Donohoe). 1855.

" Containing sketch of his life; the most important
addresses, speeches, controversial sermons, etc., delivered
in Ireland, England and Scotland, together with his letters
to Lord John Russell."

Whiteside (Chief Justice). Essays and Lectures:
Historical and Literary .i (Hodges, Foster). C.
1870. •
Contents :^Life and Death of the Irish Parliament; The

City of Rome and its vicissitudes; Oliver Goldsmith his

friends and his critics ; The Homely Virtues ; The Church
in Ireland.

\[oMeekin (Rev. David), Ballymena. The Select Works
of David Herbison, with Life of the Author. 8vo.
Pp. xxiv. -f 826. 0. Belfast: N.D. (1883).
I Ought properly to be entered on p. 12.

PROSE LITEEATUEE. 9

CuLLEN (Cardinal). Writings. 3 Vols. Pp. 873 + 802
+ 813. (Browne & Nolan). 1882.

Edited by Bight Rev. P. F. Moran, D.D., Bishop of Ossory,
afterwards Cardinal. Almost exclusively pastoral letters
dealing with matters of religious discipline and piety. The
secular matters dealt with are chiefly education in Ireland,
and in particular the Catholic tfniversity (1850 sq.)
Proselytism and sectarian strife, Fenianism (which is un-
sparingly condemned, Vol. II., pp. 134, 388, etc.), and
O'Connell's centenary, 1875. The documents cover the
period 1850-1878, and are printed in chronological order.
No Index.

Maginn (William). Miscellanies : A Selection. 2 Vols.
Pp. 373 + 384. (Sampson Low). 1885.

Edit«d by R. W. Montagu. Contains Memoir of author
and about 60 pieces in prose and verse. The following are
Irish in subject : — ^Adjutant O'Doherty, Ode to Mrs.
Flanagan, Inishowen, O'Doherty on Werner, on Irish Songs,
Bob Burke's Duel with Ensign Brady, The Irishman and
the Lady, O'Donoghue's Dirge, Royal Visit to Ireland,
Mocre-ish Melodies (parodies of Moore). The above are
either graceful ballads, jeux d'esprits, or humorous 'narra-
tives, told in a vein of wild gaiety. Maginn (1793-1842)
was a Corkman. He contributed to many' English
magazines, and was one of the founders of Fraser's, the
contributors to which included the best talent of England.
He was an Ultra-Tory and an Orangeman. Dr. JIaokenzie
edited in 1857 The Miscellanies of William Maginn (5 vols.),
published in America.

Sheeidan (Eichard Brinsley). Works. (London), 1871
(2 Vols.) and 1891 (1 Vol.). Edited, with Memoir,
by James P. Browne, with Extracts from Sheri-
dan's Life by Thomas Moore.

Works. (London). 1875.

Edited by F. Stamforth, and containing dramas, poems,
translations, speeches, and unfinished sketches, with
memoir of author ; a collection of ana and ten reproductions
of chalk drawings.

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" ilAcLEOD (Fiona)." [ = William Sharp.] Collected
Works. 7 Vols. (Heinemann) . 5s. uet, each.
1910.

Viz., I. — Pliarais : The Mountain Lovers. 11.— Tlie Sin
Eater : The Washer of the Ford. III.— Under the Darli
Star. IV. — Tlie Divine Adventure; lona, etc. V. — The
"Winged Destiny. VI. — The Silence of Amor : Where the
Forest Murmurs. VII. — Poems and Dramas. Much of
tliis work comes under the head of fiction, and an account
of that portion of it will be found in " A Reader's Guide to
Irish Fiction," by the present editor. Notes on vols. IV.
and V. will bo found on pp. 56 and 41, respectively.

Si'NGB (J. M.). Works. A Collected Ed. in 4 Vols.
Demy 8vo. (Maunsel). Bound in buckram, 4
parts. 1910.

Vol. I.— Plays. Vol. II.— Plays and Poems. Vol. III.—
The Aran Islands. Vol. IV. — Sketches in Wicklow, Kerry,
and Connemara. The matter of vols. III. and IV. belongs
by right to the realm of pure literature as much as Steven-
son's " Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes." Never-
theless, it is more convenient to class them under
" Topography," as they would naturally be looked for under
that head. See vol. III. of the Reader's Guide.

Yeats (W. B.). The Collected Works in Prose and
Verse of William Butler Yeats. 8 Vols. Demy Bvo.
Bound with quarter vellum, black and grey cloth
side. Printed at Shakespeare Head Press, Strat-
ford-on-Avon. £4 4s. net. Sold only in sets. 1,060
sets printed. (A. H. BuUen). 1908.

All the contents of this are noted either elsewhere in the
present volume or in " A Reader's Guide to Irish Fiction."

PEOSE LITERATURE. 11

B. — Essays.

(Including Lectures and Sketches of various kinds).

Davis (Thomas). Prose Writings of. Edited, with an
Introduction, by T. W. EoUeston. Pp. 285. (Walter
Scott: The Camelot Series). Is. 1st ed., 1889.

The best collection of Davis' essays published; very neat
volume. It includes — (1) Davis' famous address (43 pages)
before the Trinity College Debating Society — ;i criticism of
the education of the day, a powerful exhortation to the class
represented by his hearers to educate themselves to become
useful citizens, ending with a fervid appeal to remember
they had a country, and to love it and serve it. (2) An
Essay, Udalism and Feudalism (types of land tenure.) (3)
The Literary and Historical Essays by which Davis, in the
pages of " The Nation," educated the people in patriotism.
They are full of suggestion and of enthusiasm, rather than
of erudition; full of high, yet perfectly sane and realizable
ideals. (4) Political Articles. (5) Maxims and Eeflections
taken from essays not included in this selection.
Subjects of division (3) — The Glories of Ancient Ireland (4
or 5 essays). Memorials of Wexford, The Irish Brigade, The
Speeches of Grattan, The Resources of Ireland, National
Ait, Commerce, Music, Literature, and Scenery, Methods of
self -education, etc., etc. The editor says very well — " Few
readers will fail to be touched and exalted by the revelation
which these writings contain of a spirit as high, sincere,
unselfish, sweet, and brave as ever illuminated the history
of any people."

Messrs. P. J. Kenedy, of New York, publish in one vol.
($1.2(1) the Poems and Essays. This they claim to be the
only complete edition. Contains John Mitchel's Introduc-
tion.

Giles (Henry), 1809-1882. Lectures and Essays on
Irish and Other Subjects. 2 Vols. (Boston, after-
wards New York : Sadlier). [1845.] 1850, 1869,

etc.

Includes a fine essay on " The Irish Intellect." This is a
publication, in book form, of lectures which drew crowded
audiences in U.S.A. They were highly commended by Miss
Mitford in her " Recollections of a Literary Life." Henry
Giles was born in Wexford. He became a Unitarian

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minister, and in 1840 went to America, where he became a
well-known lecturer. Other pieces deal with O'Conneil,
Curran, Griffin, Dr. Doyle (J. K. L.), Goldsmith. Written
with warm sympathy for Ireland, and m a graceful and
thoughtful style.

The Voice of the Nation. Pp. 193. (Duffy). 1844.

A reprint of 60 articles from " The Nation " newspaper, by
Davis, Duffy, Doheny, McNevin, Dillon, and O'Neill Daunt.
The papers are of a miscellaneous character — questions of
the day, discussions of abstract principles, politics, home
and foreign. There is not much in the book that has quite
lost its interest for Irishmen even at the present day.

Sheil (Eichard Lalor). Sketches, Legal and Political.
Edited, with Notes, by M. W. Savage. 2 "Vols.
Pp. 411 + 374. (Hurst & Blackett). 1855.

Contributed, between 1822 and 1831, to the New Monthly
Magazine, which was remarkable at the time for the bril-
liancy of its articles. Contains — (1) Sketches of the career
and character of the following members of the Irish Bar :
Bushe, Saurin, Joy, Lord Norbury, Bellew, O'Loghlen,
Leslie Foster, The Catholic Bar. (2) Notes upon circuit,
including accounts of some remarkable cases of the time.
(3) Three articles on the state of parties in Dublin at a
time of peculiar confusion (1823-4). (4) An account of the
Catholic deputation in 1825. (5) Full account (56 pages)
of the famous Clare election. (6) A forecast of the effects
of Emancipation (written Dec, 1829.) (7) Recollections of
the Jesuits, being reminiscences of his stay at their schools
at Kensington (in reality that of the Pferes de la Foi) and
Stonyhurst. (8) Zoology in Dublin, 1830. (9) The Irish
Elections, 1831. The author's standpoint is Catholic and
Liberal.

Abraham (G. W.), LL.D., M.R.I.A. Essays, Historical,
Critical, and Political. Pp. viii. + 637 Demy
8vo. (Richardson). 1868.
Twenty -four essays, contributed principally to the Duhlin

Review. Only the last four on Irish subjects, viz. Peel's

Memoirs, Education in Ireland, Principles and Parties, Eng.
lish and Irish Liberals. Written from the standpoint of
O'Conneil 's Catholic Liberalism. Throw considerable light
on contemporary polities.

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Senior (William Nassau). Journals, Conversations,
and Essays relating to Ireland. 2 Vols. Pp. 313 +
299. (Longmans). 2nd ed. 1868.

Embrace the period 1835-1862. Writer holds that the material
evils of Ireland are want of capital and of small proprietors.
The moral evils are Insecurity, Indolence and Ignorance.
The only thing to be done is to make the laws less un-
popular by removing legitimate grievances, e.g., excessive
Protestant endowment, non-recognition of Catholic Church,
which should be endowed. Believes the Irish people to be
wholly in hands of priests, who are a barrier to all progress.
Is opposed to Tory Government.

Contents : — ^An Essay on National Property : Ireland in
1843 : Proposals for extending Irish poor-law : Eelief of
Irish distress, 1847-8 : Journal of a fortnight's visit to
Ireland, 1852 : Journal, 1852 : Journal, 1858 : Journal, 1862.
In these Journals the author records at length conversations.
" Nearly all the persons whose conversations I extract were
owners or managers of land."

Burke (Revd. Thomas), O.P. Lectures and Sermons.
Pp.664. Imp. Svo. (New York: Haverty). 1872.

Author's edition. Contains, apart from purely religious
discourses :— St. Patrick (the character and permanence of
his work). Funeral oration on O'ConneU, The History of
Ireland as told by her ruins. The Supernatural Life the
Absorbing Life of the Irish People, The National Music of
Ireland, The Exiles of Erin, The Irish People in their Rela-
tion to Catholicity. The lectures are characterised, not so
much by their learning or novelty, as by the force and fire
of their language and their glowing patriotism. " There is
no pretension to anything like style," says Father Burke.
Yet at times a high level of impressive eloquence is reached.
Messrs. P. J. Kenedy, of New York, publish a very com-
plete edition in 3 vols. Sold separately, viz. — 1st series,
with Reply to Froude, $1.25; 2nd series, $1.25; 3rd series.
Lectures in Ireland, $1.50. This edition includes his
sermons. No Irish pubHsher seems to have an edition of
his lectures still in print.

Armstrong (E. J.). Essays and Sketches. Pp. 306.
(Longmans). 5s, 1877.

Contains nothing of distinctively Irish interest, except a
fragment entitled " Irish Literature," and an essay on
" The Irish Sporting Youth."

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BuEKE (Edmund). Edmund Burke on Irish Affairs.
Edited by Mathew Arnold. Pp. xm. + 439. (Mac-
millan). 6s. 1881.

These writings deal with the period 1760-1797. They in-
clude— (1) Tracts on the Popery Laws. (2) A speech de-
livered at tlie Guildhall, Bristol, in 1780. (3) Letters.
" Burke is the greatest of our political thinkers and writers.
But his political thinking and writing has more value on
some subjects than on others; the value is at its highest
when the subject is Ireland. The writings collected m this
volume cover a period of more than 30 years of Irish His-
tory, and show at work all the causes which have brought
Ireland to its present state. The tyranny of the grantees
of confiscation; of the English garrison; Protestant ascen-
dency; the reliance of the English Government upon this
ascendency ... as their means of government ; the yielding
to menaces of danger and insurrection what was never
yielded to considerations of equity and reason . . . — all
these are shown in this volume." (Pref.).

Arnold (Mathew). Irish Essays: and Others. Pp.
308. (Smith Elder). 1882.

" The great contention of these essays is that, in order to
attach Ireland to us solidly, English people have not only
to do something different from what they have done hitherto,
they have also to be something different from what they
have been hitherto." (Pref.) First Essay — " The Inoom.
patibles," inquires into the causes of Ireland's hostility to
England, and to the methods by which the countries may
be reconciled and made to fuse. Second Essay — An Un-
regarded Irish Grievance," viz., the inadequacy of the
education provided for the naiddle classes. These two
(108 pp.) are the only two of Irish interest. Other Essays
included in the volume are — The Future of Liberalism, The
French Play in London, Copyright, Prefaces to poems. The
standpoint is very English, but independent of party bias.
The views are nearly those of Edmund Burke.

Mangan (James Clarence). Essays. Edited by Revd.
C. P. Meehan. Pp. 320. IGmo. (Duffy). Is.
1884, etc.

Contains six prose pieces, all except one, viz. — The Two
Flats, or our Quaokstitution, contained in G'Donoghue's

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edition (q.v.). This essay is a humorous skit on the British
Constitution, especially the House of Lords. The.remainder
of the book consists of poetical pieces. See under
" Poetry."

Mangan (James Clarence). The Prose Works of.
Edited by D. J. O'Donoghue. Pp. 329.
(O'Donoghue & Co. and Sidgwick). 3s. 6d. net.
1904.

Contains : — The 30 Flasks, the Man in the Cloak, The
Churl in the Grey Coat, Chapters on Ghost craft, A Sixty
Drop Dose of Laudanum, The Three Half-Crowns, A Gei'-
man Poet, A Treatise on a Pair of Tongs, My Bugle and
how I blow it, An Adventure in the Shades, The Three
Bings, The Story of the Old Wolf. Only the third of these
has any bearing on Ireland. None of them is serious. They
are mostly whimsical extravaganzas, somewhat in tl;8
manner of Poe. There is an interesting essay by the
editor, and an exquisite little study by Lionel Johnson.

O'Hagan (Lord). Occasional Papers and Addresses.
Pp.400. (Keegan, Paul). 1884.

Of these papers, the following are of Irish interest : — The
Study of Jurisprudence, Roman, English, and Celtic;
O'Connell; Moore; Grattan; Chas. W. Eussell, D.D. ; Legal,
Educational, and Social Reforms in Ireland; Ireland in
1853 — Hopes of Progress; A Literary Institute in Donegal
and its Uses (Letterkenny, 1871); The Tralee Election,
1863.

D'Esteere-Keeling (Elsa). In Thoughtland and
Dreamland. Pp. 300. (Unwin). 1890.

Contents : — I. — Glints through the London fog. II. — A
Sea Sketch. III. — English Country Pictures. IV. — A
Quiet Irish Talk, consisting of three little pieces, the
third in verse, viz. — An Unhappy Island in the West, Was
she oomplainin', and Love making in Paddy -land. These,
though slight, make the book worth including because of
their personal and unusual point of view. The author is
Irish, and loves Ireland. Part XII. includes — " The Irish
Vicar's Experiences of ' The People's ' Powers of Speech."
The rest is made up of "pictures, tales, and talks,"
French, Scotch, Swiss, German and Russian.

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Daunt (W. J. O'Neill). Essays on Ireland. (Gill). Bs.
1889.

Gathered from Duhlin Review, Contemporary Review etc.
Contents : — Ireland under the Legislative Union, Ireland
in the time of Swift, How the Union robs Ireland, The
Irish Difficulty, Tithe Eent-charge in Ireland, Ireland in
the time of Grattan, History and Financial Results of
Union, the Vioeroyalty, England in the 18th Century, the
Disestablishment of the State Church. The author was a
noted political writer for 40 years before the above date.

MoRAN (Cardinal, Archb. of Melbourne). Occasional
Papers. Pp. 250. (Browne & Nolan). 2s. 6d.
1890.

Ten articles and addresses. The following are of Irish in-
terest : — " The Civilization of Ireland before the Anglo-
Norman invasion ; " " Catholics and Irishmen " (a pane-
gyric of Ireland and of Catholicism); " " Ireland and
Australia." Some of the other articles are also of great
interest, notably, " The Fruits of Self -Culture. " The style
is quite popular.

Allingham (William). Varieties in Prose. 3 Vols.
(Longmans). Port, of Arthur. 1893. Vol. I.
Rambles in Various Parts of England. Vol. II.
Eambles in Various Parts of England, Scotland,
and France. Vol. III. consists of A. Irish Sketches
(pp. 1-178) ; B. Six Essays (pp. 179-350) ; C. Hop-
good & Co., a Play (pp. 351-380).

A. contains — (1) Seven Hundred Years Ago — a lucid and
vividly presented sketch of the Norman Conquest and the
Ireland of the time, quite Irish in sympathy. (2) An Irish
River (The Erne) — historical associations of all places on
its banks— interesting and uncommon information. (3) St.
Patrick's Day— the story of St. Patrick, and some reflections
on how his feast is kept. (4) St. Patrick's Purgatory
[1850]— the impressions of a Protestant— a plain and honest
account, free from bias. (5) Irish Ballad Singers and Street
Ballads. (6) The Midsummer Fire. (7) Geo Petrie—
written 1866, the year of Petrie 's death— an eloquent
tribute by a personal friend.

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O'Bk TEN (William, J\r.P.). Irish Ideas. Pp. 1G7. Long-
mans). [1st ed., 1893 ; 2nd, 1895.J
These papers " were first read to audiences of young Irish-
men during a period ranging from 1885 to 1893 " (Pref.).
" These pages may help outsiders to understand that the
passion of Irish Nationality is at least so genuine that it is
of more importance than all the other elements of the Irish
problem put together " (Pref.). Contents : — The Irish
National Idea, The Lost Opportunities of the Irish Gentry,
A Gem of Misgovemment (Clare Island), The Influence of
the Irish Language, Are the Evicted Tenants Knaves?
Toleration in the Fight for Ireland (an appeal to all sections
to unite), The Irish Age of Gold, The Future of the Young
Men of Ireland. A book of permanent value, inasmuch as
it deals with ideas. Written witli nerve and enthusiasm, in
picturesque and highly-coloured style, but almost without
rant.

Atkinson (Sarah). Essays. Pp. xxiv. + 533. (Gill.)
1895. Recently republished in two very neat
volumes.

Introductory memoir by Lady Gilbert. Subjects : Eugene
O 'Curry, St. Brigid, The Geraldines, Foley the Sculptor,
St. Fursey, -lEngus the Culdee, Hogan the Sculptor,
Devorgilla, Dermot MacMurrough, Irish Wool and Woollens,
and some other-s not Irish. Not mere newspaper articles,
but serious and learned studies, showing wide reading, and
of great interest and value, as containing much information
not to be had elsewhere in an accessible form. The driest
subjects are made interesting by the enthusiasm of the
writer.

Lalor (James Fintan). Writings of. Pp. xxiv. +
124. (Dublin: T. G. O'Donoghue). 1895.
Introduction, embodying personal recollections, by John
O'Leary, the Fenian leader — and a brief memoir. Lalor
was an Irish revolutionary of the extremest type. -He is
claimed as the pioneer of land-reform, but was not simply
an agrarian agitator. These writings (seven short papers
in all) were contributed to the " Nation," the " United
Irishman," and the " Felon," of which latter he was editor.
He died in 1849. The style is full of nervous energy and
strength, the result of what Gavan Duffy calls " the con-
centrated and savage earnestness '' of the man. Titles :
Tenants' Eight and Landlord Law, the Faith of a Felon,
the Eights of Labour, etc.

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Flanneey (Thos.). For the Tongue of the Gael : Essays
on Irish Gaelic Subjects. Pp.187. (Sealy, Bryers).
Is. [1st ed., 1896.] New and enlarged edition,

Essay I. sets forth the scope and objects of the Gaelic
Journal. II., Warns us against the ignis fatuus of "A
Superior English Education." VI., On Celtic (Irish and
Welsh) Surnames; very interesting. XII., Dialects of Irish.
Other essays are suggested by various books, such as the
Youthful Exploits of Finn, On Irish Dictionaries, On the
Poets of Ireland (D. J. O'Donohoe's book). On Mediaeval
Irish Tales (Silva Gadelica, by S. H. O'Grady). A Real
Irish Poet (viz., Douglas Hyde) — The Love Songs of Con-
nacht. The book is soaked with Gaelic lore.

" Eglinton (John) " [i.e., William K. Magee]. Pebbles
from a Brook. Pp. 115. Published at Kilkenny
by Standish O'Grady, and at 32 Dawson Cham-
bers, Dublin. 1901.

Essays on — (1) Knowledge. (2) Heroic Literature. (3)
■ Apostolic Succession. (4) Sseclorum nasoitur ordo. (5)
Regenerate Patriotism. (6) The Three Qualities in Poetry.
(7) Optimism and Pessimism. 2 includes Irish heroic
literature. Only this and 5 (a remarkable piece of writing)
are of specially Irish interest. These essays are exception-
ally thoughtful and suggestive, but rather annoyingly elusive
and inconclusive. There is an occasional note of hostility
to religion.

Gregory (Lady), ed. Ideals in Ireland. Pp. 107.
(London: At the Unicorn) . 1901.
A very precious little volume. Aims " to show to those
who look beyond politics and horses, in what direction
thought is moving in Ireland " (Pref.). Essays by " A.E."
on Nationality v. Imperialism, by D. P. Moran on the
Battle of Two Civilizations, viz., Irish v. English (both of
these very striking essays), by George Moore on Literature
and the Irish Language, by Douglas Hyde on What Ireland
IS asking for (viz., an Irish education) and on The Return
of the Fenians (what the language movement M-ill do for
Ireland), by Standish O'Grady on the Failure of Ireland to
take advantage of the Over-Taxation Question, and by
W. B. Yeats on the Literary Movement in Ireland. All the
essays are notable for their literary qualities as well as for
their thought.

PHOSE LITEKATUEE. 19

" Eglinton (John)." Bards and Saints. Pp. B5.
(Maunsel & Co.). Is. Tower Press Booklets.
No. 5. Pub. 1906.

This little book consists of four scholarly essays on Irish
literary subjects, besides a preface in which the author
raises some disputable points about the Irish language.
Interesting, and showing a wide knowledge of lite;-ature,
foreign as well as Irish, but it is curious to note that Mr. E.
is quite averse to the language movement, and this not
" from the standpoint of mere utility," of which we hear
so much, but from a purely literary point of view.

Yeats (W. B.) : Ideas of Good and Evil. Pp. 341.
(Maunsel). 3s. net. [1903.] 2nd ed., 1906.

A book of importance, as setting forth the literary beliefs
and ideals of Mr. Yeats. Something of these is to be
gathered from nearly all the essays in the book, but they are
expressly set forth in " "What is Popular Poetry? ", " The
Symbolism of Poetry," " The Theatre," " The Celtic Ele-
ment in Literature," " The Autumn of the Body." Mr.
Yeats is a " mystic " and a believer in the " black art "
(c/. essay on " Magic "). In literature he is a symbolist.
See note on his poetry. The little essay " Ireland and the
Arts " differs almost wholly from the rest. It exhorts
Irishmen to draw the inspiration of their arts from two
great sources — Eeligion and Patriotism. Mr. Yeats' prose
is, like his poetry, delicate, meditative, and subtly wrought,
with a curious soothing charm in it. It is never discon-
nected nor confused, but is often obscure from the very
cloudiness of the thoughts, dreams, or sensations to which
it endeavours to give expression.

Yeats (W. B.). Discoveries. Pp. 43. (Dun Enier
Press, Dundrum). 7s. 6d. Only 200 printed.
1907.

Keprinted from The Shanachie, an illustrated Irish miscel-
lany. Little essays or fragments of essays, 21 in all, of
an intimate, unconventional, subjective type, giving Mr.
Yeats' mind on aspects of art and literature. Subjects : —
Prophet, Priest, and King ; Personality and the Intellectual
Essences ; The Musician and the Orator ; The Tree of Life ;
Two Kinds of Asceticism; Religious Belief Necessary to
Symbolic Art; The Holy Places, etc., etc.

20 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Victory (Louis H.l. Essays for Ireland. I'p. 84.
(Sealy, Bryers). Is.

A tiny volume of short essays, marked by grace and culture,
on such subjects as Davis's Essays^ Irwin's and Seumas
MaoManus's Poems, Symbolism, The Language Question,
Irish Women's Suffrage (14 in all).

GoDDARD (Ethel). Dreams for Ireland. Pp. 89.
(Hodges, Figgis). 2s. 6d. 1903.

An appeal in poetic, fervid, emotional language for a
revival of the ancient, primal Gaelic spirit. " This book, '
says Fiona MacLeod, in The Winged Dentiny, "is uplifted
with a radiant hope and with an ecstasy of spiritual con-
viction that make the hearb young to contemplate."

"A. E." (i.e., G. W. Russell). Some Irish Essays.
Pp.39. (Maunsel: Tower Press Booklets). 1906.

Viz. : — Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in Art; The
Dramatic Treatment of Heroic Literature; On an Irish
Hill; The Poet of Shadows (W. B. Yeats). Thoughtful,
suggestive, and refined — a poet's prose. Truly Irish in
point of view. Other essays by this writer will be found
in Lady Gregory's volume, Ideals in Ireland.

Sheehan (Canon). Early Essays and Lectures. Pp. 3B4.
(Longmans). 6s. 1906.

Contents : — Essays, I. Religious Instruction in Intermediate
Schools. II. In a Dublin Art Gallery. III. Emerson. IV.
Free Thought in America. V., VI., VII. The German
Universities. VIII. The German and Gallic Muses. IX.
Recent Augustinian Literature. X. Poetry of Matthew
Arnold. XI. Recent works on St. Augustine. XII. Aubrey
de Vere. Lectures, I. Irish Youth and High Ideals. II.
The Two Civilisations. III. The Fiftieth Anniversary of
O'Connell's Death. IV. Our Personal and Social Responsi-
bilities. V. Study of Mental Science. VI. Certain Elements
of Character. VII. Catholic Literature.
Of the Essays dealing with Irish subjects, I. contains some
of the author's views on Irish Education; II. is a discourse
on the meaning and purpose of art in general; XII. deals
with de Vere's Mediseval Legends. Of the Lectures, I. is an
appeal to young Irishmen to educate themselves;' III. A
panegyric on O'Connell's life and work, contains author's

PHOSE LITERATURE. 21

wishes for the future of Ireland; IV., An exhortation to
young Irishmen to malic thems6lv.es worthy of a great future
for Ireland. Full of love of country. These essays, etc.,
are written in a language of great culture, beauty and
eloquence, rich with allusion and illustration from very^vide
reading. The earliest date given for any of them is 1880.

Clery (Arthur E., B.L., " Chanel ")• The Idea of a
Nation. Pp.76. (Duffy). 6d. 1907.

Tv/enty-two short articles reprinted from " The Leader."
They deal with Irish Nationality in its theory and in its
practical applications. They are marked by eminently sane
thought, conveyed in a style light, pointed, -and humorous.
The author views the questions he treats from a distinctly
original standpoint.

Lecky (W. E. H.). Historical and Political Essays.
Pp. 324. (Longmans). 10s. 6d. net. 1908.

Corttains one essay of Irish interest, " Ireland in the Light
of History " (pp. 68-89), a review of Irish political history,
concluding that, " in the existing condition of Ireland, no
Parliament could be established there which could be
trusted to fulfil the most elementary conditions of honest
government. ' '

Lynd (RoUert). Irish and English: Portraits and Im-
pressions. (London: Griffiths). 5s. 1908.

Cf. " Home I/ife in Ireland." Contents : Irish — On an Emi-
grant Train. The Orange Idealist, Hibernia Bediviva, Riots,
Myles the Slasher, etc., 15 in all, with 20 English sketches.
Observations on men and manners by a joyous Bohemian,
characterised, especially in the sketches of the poor, by a
kindly, observant sympathy, a pleasant, light style and
much humour. Aspects of the Sinn Fein and Gaelic move-
ments are sympathetically treated. The folly of keeping up
the bitter partisan spirit between Catholic and Protestant
in the North is illustrated, but without preaching or
moralising. The writer is a Presbyterian Ulsterman.

Healy (Most Revd. Dr.). Papers and Addresses.
Pp. 549. (C. T. S. L). 6s. 1908.

Contents : — (1) The Cistercians in Ireland ; (2) Annals of
Loch Ce; (3) Priest in Politics; (4) Gerald Barry; (5) Was

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St. Cuthbert au Irishman?; (6) Co. Galway Archeology;
(7) Writings of Card. CuUen; (8) John Duns Sootus; (9)
Book of Deer; (10) Archbishops of Canterbury and Early
Irish Church; (11) An Island Shrine in the West; (12) The
Stowe Missal; (13) University Education in Ireland; (14)
St. Livinus; (15) Early National Synods in Ireland; (16)
Ireland and Rome ; (17) History of Sligo Town and County ;
(18) Speech on Edmund Burke; (19) A Family of Famous
Celtic Scholars (MacFivbis) ; (20) The Historians of Ossory ;
(21) A Pilgrimage to Innismurray; (22) Patrician Pilgrim-
ages in Ireland; (23) Old Irish Bomanesque Architecture;
(24) Western Archaeology. The rest are purely ecclesias-
tical and non-Irish in subject. The treatment of the
various subjects dealt with is popular and interesting rather
than erudite or exhaustive.

Healt (Most Rev. Dr., Archb. of Tuam). Irish Essays.
Pp. 125. (Catholic Truth Society of Ireland).
111. by 22 photos. 1908.

Subjects : — The Four Masters ; Tara, Pagan and Christian ;
Irish Graves in Borne; Holy Wells of Ireland; Bound
Towers; St. Patrick in the Far West; Two Royal Abbeys
on the Western Lakes; Grania Uaile. All popularly and
interestingly treated

Butler (Lieut.-Gen. Sir William, G.C.B.). The Light
of the West. Pp. 246. (Gill). 5s. 1909.

Nine essays and addresses, viz. : — (1) The Light of the
West (1880), a study of the life and work of St. Patrick.
(2) Napoleon and St. Helena (1908), in which the author,
after more than 40 years' study, concludes that the object
sought by English Ministers in 1815 was not the exile
but the speedy death of Napoleon. Contains wonderfully
vivid pen picture of the island. The author has a strong
admiration for Napoleon. (3) Parnell (1908). (4) Gordon
(1907) (whose life Sir W. Butler has written). (5) They
were a great people, sir (1881), dealing, in an entirely
fj'esb way, with the land question, class questions and
depopulation in Ireland. (6) The Clan and the Boat's
Crew (1907). A compariscn of English and Irish ideals
and characteristics. (7) A ramble through Belgian battle-
fields_ (1865). (8) At Mungret (1907) relates the author's
oxpei-iences of Catholic foreign missionaries. (9) At Water-
ford (190S) — Irish economic problems.

PROSE LITEBATUBE. 23

The author is well known by his other works — The Great
Lone Land, Red Cloud, From Naboth's Vineyard, Life of
Sir G. P. Colley, etc. He is intensely Irish in sympathy,
fearless and outspoken on the side of the poor, and of
oppressed and backward peoples, as against ascendencies
and tyrannies of all kinds. It has been well said of this
book that it is the work, of " a strong man writing about
strong men and writing strongly." It is full of strikingly
original and unconventional views set forth in a style full
of rush and energy, " ose," picturesque, never heavy or
dull, abounding in epigram and in unexpected turns of
thought.

Falkiner (C. Litton). Essays Relating to Ireland.
Pp. 249. (Longmans). 98. net. 1909.

Memoir of the author by Edward Dowden, LL.D. The
essays are biographical, historical and topographical. Most
of them appeared originally in the Edinburgh Review. The
author was a Dublin barrister and Unionist politician who,
in 1908, became a member of the Land Commission. He
edited the Ormonde papers in 5 vols, (a sixth is in the
Press). Died, 1908. Subjects : (1) Spenser in Ireland. (2)
Sir John Davis (Irish Attorney-Gen. at time of Plantation
of Ulster). (3) An Illustrious Cavalier (James Butler,
12th Earl and 1st Duke of Ormond). (5) Robert Emmet.
(6) Archbishop Stone (Protestant Primate in Ireland during
reign of George II.). (7, etc.) Short histories of Dublin,
Ifoughal, Kilkenny, Drogheda, Armagh and Galway. A
consideration of Irish Parliamentary History, with com-
plete list of Speakers of the Irish House of Commons, and
many other valuable details. The essays are marked by
painstaking and conscientious research.

Mac. Character Sketches. (Simpkin). 5s. net.
1909.

GwYNN (Stephen), M.P. Charlotte Grace O'Brien and
her Writings. Pp. 232. (Maunsel). 3s. 6d.
1909.

First half of vol. occupied by memoir. Contains about
70 of her poems, a few essays, including The Shannon,
Shanid Castle, and A Jog, Jog Journey from Dublin to
Limerick, and some letters. They are not of high literary
value, but they reveal a noble and unselfish, if eccentric,
personality. Several of the poems are of Irish interest,
including several on the Shannon, but they deal chiefly
with little home scenes and interests.

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RooNET (William). The Prose Work of. (GiU)-
Is'. 6d. 1909.

A selection by Seumas Maemanus of the best work of a
3'oung pioneer of the Gaelic Revival of an exceptionally
admirable and amiable character, sincere, intensely enthu-
siastic, yet tolerant. He had read almost everything that
was available in English about the country, and nothing
that was published in Irish escaped him. Hence these
13 essays are full of knowledge of every period of Irish
history," literary, industrial, and political. Subjects: (1)
The Primary School System. (2) A Recent Irish Literature.

(3) The Limitations of the Language Movement. (4) Irish
Topography. (5) Gaelicism in Practise (an epitome of
Ireland's social, industrial, and political history, and pro-
bably the author's best piece of work in prose). (6) Our
Songs and Songsters. (7) Development of the national
idea. (8) Emigration, and how to stay it. (9) Our native
Parliament. (10) The importance of being in earnest. (11)
Athletics. (12) An Alternative Policy (viz., Sinn Feini).

Kettle (Prof. T. M.). The Day's Burden. Pp. 178.
12mo. (Maunsel). 2s. 6d. net. 1910.

Contents : — (1) The Philosophy of Politics. (2) On Crossing
the Irish Sea. (3) Otto Effertz, Gentleman Socialist.

(4) On "Written Constitutions. (6) Body v. Soul. (6)
Reveries of Assize. (7) A New Way of Misunderstanding
Hamlet. (8) Young Egypt. (9) The Fatigue of Anatole
France. (10) International Socialists. (11) A French-
man's Ireland. (12) Reason in Rhyme. (13) On Saying
Good-bye. The style is terse, pointed, cften epigrammatic.
Many of the essays are trifles, all are treated lightly, and
often with a certain ironic humour, but not flippantly.
In all there is a decidedly original point of view and much
that is suggestive.

JoTOE (P. W.), LL.D., T.C.D., M.E.I.A. The Wonders
of Ireland. Pp. 242. (Gill), 2s. 6d. Portrait
of Author. 1911.

In subsequent sections will be found notices of many

important works by this author. Contents of above :

I.—A series of 36 short pieces, giving title to book,
and consisting of ancient tales of marvels said to have
taken place at various periods in Ireland, as related in the
Book of Ballymote and other Gaelic MSS.. and the Kon<rs
Skuggio (Speculum Regale) written in Norse in jo.in

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They are given in Mr. Joyce's own words, often with an
explanatory remark. II. — Tales, such as Fergus O'Mara
and the Demons. III. — Historical Pieces, such as Cathal
'Conor, Sir John de Courcy, etc. IV. — Essay on the
Irish rivers mentioned in Spenser's Faerie Queen. V. —
Our Three Patron Saints (short lives of Sts. Patrick,
Brigid, and Columbkille). VI. — On the Interpretation of
Irish Names of Places. All the pieces are simple and
popular, both in style and treatment, but drawn from a
very well stored mind.

Shaw (James Johnston), K.C. Occasional Papers.
Pp. liv. + 451. (Hodges, Figgis). 7s. 6d. Por-
trait. 1910.

Judge Shaw was Prof, at Magee Coll., Derry (1869-78),
Prof, of Polit. Economy, T.C.D. (ISTT-Sa), Recorder of
Belfast (1909-10). This book is ed., with biographical
introd., by his daughter, Mrs. Margaret L. Woods. The
subjects dealt with relate mainly to Polit. Economy and
Finance {e.g., Free Trade) with a few literary studies. Of
Irish interest are : — Gladstone's Two Irish Policies, 1868,
1886 (Unionist in point of view). The Humours of an Irish
County Court (The author was C.C.J. , of Co. Clare).

" MouNTJOY (Desmond)," i.e., W. M. Chapman Houston.
A Creel of Peat. (The Adelphi Press). 1910.

A collection of essays. '•' Whom the Gods Love " is an
appreciation of the young northern poet T. E. Mayne.
" Helen's Tower " is a tribute to the late Lord Duflerin.
Another is about Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes).

GwTNN (Stephen), M.P. To-day and To-morrow in
Ireland. Pp. xix. and 223. (Hodges & Figgis).

Essays dealing with " the influences, material, intellectual
and spiritual, which are to-day at work in Ireland " (Pref.)
written in a Nationalist spirit, with an Introduction setting
forth the author's views on the question of Home Rule
and on the Irish landlord class.- " The object of this book
is to induce people in Ireland to think oif what is being
done, what can be done, in Ireland for Ireland " (Pref.).
Pp. 1-96 tell of the Gaelic Revival, especially of the litera-
ture it is producing. The essay, " The Secret of Ireland,"
treats the religious question in a sympathetic and open-

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minded spirit. Pp. 158 to the end treat of the Industrial
Eevival and the work of the Congested Districts Board.
All the essays have a literary flavour.
Johnson (Lionel). Essays and Critical Papers.
(Elkin Mathews). 1912.

Edited by Thomas Whittemore. Among other things of
Irish interest, contains a critical paper on Barry O'Brien's
" Life of Parnell " and an essay on Mangau.

C. — Speeches.

Burke. Speeches of the Eight Hon. Edmund Burke.
Edited by James Burke, A.B. One Volume.
(1729-1797). Pp. xxiv. + 456. (Duffy). 2s.
1st ed., 1853, still in print.

" I have placed no speech in this volume of the authen-
ticity of which I had not obtained clear evidence " (Pref.).
Memoir, pp. vii. + xxiv. Historical introductions to each
speech (brief). Contents : — Speeches on the Quarrel with
the (then) British Colonies of North America, On Indian
Questions, Speeches at Bristol, On Economic and Ecclesias-
tical Reform, On Toleration, On the French Revolution,
Impeachment of Warren Hastings (selections). Selections
from Pamphlet on the French Revolution, and from the
" Letter to a Noble Lord." Of the Irish orators Burke
alone is a permanent world classic. In him there is un-
failing sublimity of principle and breadth of philosophic
thought set forth in stately, and magnificently figurative
language.

Wilson (C. H.). The Beauties of Edmund Burke.
2 vols. (London). 1798.
With a sketch of his life.
Flood.

Of the speeches of Henry Flood (1732-1791), Grattan's

great rival, and, perhaps, scarcely his inferior, no satis-
factory edition exists, though a few of them are to be
found scattered through the pages of Warden Flood's
biography of the orator. Lecky says in his " Leaders of
Public Opinion in Ireland,"—'' A few pages of oratory,
which probably at best only represent the substance of his
speeches, a few youthful poems, a few laboured letters,

PBOSE LITERATURE. 27

and a biography so meagre and unsatisfactory that it
scarcely gives us any insight into his character, are all
that remain of Henry Flood."

Sheridan. (1751-1816). Speeches. 4 vols.

Edited by " A Constitutional Friend." First published,
1816, afterwards re-issued in the Bohn Library in 3 vols.
Contains every speech the editor could collect, including
subjects of the most trifling nature. Given in strict
chronological order. In the first 3 vols, there is only one
speech concerning Ireland. In vol. 4 are contained the
speeches on the Union. The Dictionary of National
Biography says of him : — ' ' As an orator he impressed the
House of Commons more deeply than almost any pre-
decessor, and as a politician in a venal age he preserved
his independence and purity." He always supported
Grattan's party in their efforts in Ireland, strenuously
opposed the Union, and worked for Catholic Emancipation.
Burke described his great speech against Warren Hastings
(never, unhappily, properly reported) as " the most
astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united
of which there was any record or tradition." Pitt said
that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient or modern
times, and Fox gave it praise no less unstinted. Moore,
his biographer, says of his eloquence in general, " Good
sense and wit were the great weapons of his oratory —
shrewdness in detecting the weak points of an adversary,
and infinite powers of raillery in exposing them." There
is an edition of his complete works by F. Stamforth.
See p. 9.

CuRRAN. (1750-1817). Speeches of. Ed., with
Memoirs and Historical Notice, by Thomas Davis.
(Duffy). 2s. xxxiv., 38-471 pp. 12s. 1st ed.,
1845 ; many since.

The first satisfactory edition (still in print). Contains 68
speeches (39 not in any former edition) with connecting
notices giving state of politics connected with question
treated in political speeches, together with the progress
and result of the debate. Prefixed to legal speeches are
the facts of the case and often short biographies of
Curran's clients. Great attention has been paid to fixing
precise dates. Memoir of Curran, pp. XI. -XXXIV.,
written with Davis' wonted fervour and eloquence. All
the political speeches included were delivered in the Irish

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House of Commons. They deal with a great variety of
subjects, e.g., Two on Catholic Emancipation, ^Un tlio
State of the Nation," " On Hoehe's Expedition. ihe

last speech was in 1797. Of the legal speeches many are
defences of men accused of High Treason (e.g., Oliver
Bond, Henry Sheares, Napper Tandy, etc.). _ Curran is
" varied, abounding and irregular; iridescent with humour
and fun, melting in pathos, full of tenderness, delicacy
and fire; copious in invective and exuberant in imagery."
Burke called him " the greatest advocate that ever lived."
" I heard him speak more poetry than I have ever seen
written," said Byron.

Grattan (1746-1820). Speeches. Edited by D. 0.
Madden. Pp. xxxvi. + 468. (Duffy). 2s. 1st
ed. still in print.

Memoir, pp. VII. -XXXVI. The speeches range from 1780
to 1819. The speeches are mainly Vindications of Irish
political independence, condemnations of Governmental
corruption, speeches against the Union. All the speeches
(except two) from 1805 on are in favour of Catholic
Emancipation (pp. 286 end). To his last breath Grattan
spent himself in the cause of Ireland and of the Catholics.
There are also the famous invectives against Flood and
against Corry, and the speech on the fall of Napoleon.
Short introductions are prefixed to each speech and dates
are given in all oases. Davis says : — " No other orator is
so uniformly animated ... no other writer in the
language, except Shakespeare, has so sublime and sugges-
tive a diction. His force and vehemence, his rush and
splendour, are amazing."

Plunket (1746-1820). Speeches. Ed. by .John Cashel
Hoey. Pp. xxiv. + 480. (Duffy).' 2s. 1st ed.,
1855 ; still in print.

First collection of Plunket 's speeches. The editor was at
great pains to get the authentic versions, and believes
him.self to have been successful. " At least a dozen of
[the speeches included] fully sustain his fame " (Preface).
Memoir, pp. iii-xxiv. Long and carefully-written intro-
ductory and connecting notices before each speech. The
latter cover the period 1798-1841. They include 6 against
the Union, 9 or 10 on Catholic Grievances (he was in
favour of Emancipation but against dis-establishment) the

PROSE LITERATURE. 29

indictment of Eobert Emmet and liis " atrocious con-
spiracy." " The force of Plunket's speeches consists not
only in their vigorous volume or argument and stately
height of rhetoric, but that they deal closely, practically,
and intimately with the things and the men about him."
lie has been spoken of as " the orator of colossal logic,
always great, massive, and impressive."

Plunket (The Hon. David).- The Life, Letters, and
Speeches of Lord Plunket. 2 vols. Pp. 409 +
380. (Smith Elder). 1867.

In this work the letters and speeches are interwoven with
the text of the life. The speeches included " have, with
very few exceptions, reference to two political questions —
those, namely, of the Legislative Union of 1800, and of
the Catholic Emancipation " (Preface). The life is fair
and imparial in tone. Preface by Lord Brougham (himself
a great orator), in which he speaks of Plunket's eloquence
in the highest terms and praises the unswerving consis-
tency of his principles. The author is grandson of Lord
Plunket.

O'CoNNELL. (1775-1846). 1. The Life and Speeches
of Daniel O'Connell. Ed. by his son, John O'Con-
nell. 2 vols, of 560 pp. each. Demy 8vo. (Duffy).
1846.

The speeches are given in extenso in the course of the
narrative.

2. Select Speeches. Edited by his son, John

O'Connell. 2 vols. Pp. 456 + 472. ' (Duffy).
4s. [1st ed., 1856]; in print.

Speeches at the bar, at meetings, dinners, etc., and letters,
many of them of little interest now. Introductory his-
torical notices. The first speech is dated January, 1808,
the last, January, 1825. This is, perhaps, the less impor-
tant period of O'Connell 's career, but it includes the
struggle over the Veto question and the beginnings of
formidable organisation among Catholics. It is largely
taken up with intestine warfare. The chief burden of the
speeches is Catholic rights with much about conciliation
and tolerance between the creeds, denunciation of cor-
ruption, of Orangism and Ribbonism and bigotry. Rather
a collection than a selection. N.B. — i is really the same
as 2.

30 GUIDE TO BODIES ON IRELAND.

3, CusACK (M. F.). The Speeches and Public Letters
of the Liberator. 2 vols. Pp. xxxvi. + 551 +
570. (McGlashan & Gill). 1875.

Preface and Historical Notes giving context. No index
nor table of contents. This is the only edition that gives
speeches later than 1825.

4. The Centenary Edition of O'Connell's Select

Speeches. 2 vols, in one. (Duffy). 3s. 6d.
[1875] ; still in print.

General Note. — O'C.'s speeches, as spoken, gained more
than those of perhaps any other Irish orator, from qualities
independent of literary style. Thus, when transferred to
print, their loss is greater. Gavan Dufiy, in " Young Ire-
land," thus describes him : " Th.e mobile face, gleaming
with humour or blazing in wrath, the well-set head and
iron jaw, the towering figure and voice of leonine compass,
but capable of all modulations in the gamut of passion or
persuasion, furnished a picture never to be forgotten."
Yet, even as printed, his speeches, in spite of their lapses
from taste and moderation, and their endless repetitions of
the same thoughts and phrases, are closely reasoned and
vigorous. " His speeches are happily free from high-
sounding and florid phrases His command of lan-
guage was copious. . . . But his oratory was not the
oratory of epigrams; it was the oratory of full-blooded,
vehement passion " (Macdonagh).

BuEEowEs (Peter). (1763-1841). Select Speeches at
the Bar and in the Irish Parliament. With a
Memoir (Pp. 1-134). Portrait. Pp. xvi. + 364.
(Hodges & Smith). 1850. Ed. by a relative,
Waldron Burrowes.

Speeches at the Bar include two in defence of Catholic
civil rights, two in cases of seduction, and some on
technical points of law. They are admirably and clearly
reasoned, with little rhetoric. The same may be said of
his four fine speeches against the Union which are models
of forcible and logical argument. The remaining speeches
moluded an early and somewhat florid declamation as
Auditor of the College Historical Society. Speeches on
the Liberty of the Press, the advantages of education, the
character of Sergeant Ball, etc.

PROSE LITERATURE. 31

SiiEiL (1791-1851). Speeches. Pp. xliv. + 471. Ed.
by Thomas .MacNevin. (Duffy). 2s. 1st ed.,
c. 1846 ; still in print.

Memoir, pp. i.-xliv. No preface. No introductory notices
to the speeclies, some of which are undated. Contains 52
speeches, some delivered in the British Parliament, some
at the Catholic Association's meetings, dealing with all the
great questions of the day (1827-1850), Repeal, The
Protestant Established Church in Ireland, Catholic Eman-
cipation, Irish Arms Bill, Maynooth, etc. Shell was a
Catholic and a strenuous co-worker with O'Connell in the
Catholic cause.

Phillips (Charles). 1787-1850. Speeches in Ireland
and England. Pp. xvi. + 205. (N.Y. : Kirk &
Mercier). [1817]. Other eds., 1822, 1839.

Contains : — Preface (an eulogy and an apology), by John
Finlay; 5 public speeches, viz., at Sligo against Veto and
Penal Laws, at Cork on Catholic rights and claims, at
Dinas Island (a panegyric of U.S.A.), at Dublin on pushing
the Catholic claims in Parliament, and another; 5 at the
Bar (3 in cases of seduction). No introductory notes, nor
dates, nor index. Have been condemned (chiefly by the
orator's political opponents) as ranting and full of " tedious
and tasteless exaggerations." They are indeed too full of
elaborate balance and antithesis to be in accordance with
modern taste. Yet the language is lofty and striking, with
here and there passages of splendid eloquence. His
" Character of Napoleon Bonaparte "is to be found in
Bell's elocutionist. Though the .author was a Protestant,
many remarkable tributes to the Catholic Church are to
be found in his speeches.

Meagher (Thomas Frahcis). 1823-67. Speeches on
the Legislative Independence of Ireland. Pp. xxxi.
+ 310. (N.Y.: Haverty). [1852]. 1885.

First edition, edited by Meagher : in 1869 ed. with
Richard O'Gorman's oration on Meagher. AH spoken in
1846-8 in Ireland during the Repeal and Young Ireland
Movement. Each speech preceded in the book by an
elaborate introductory note by Meagher giving details of
contemporary history (sometimes 5 or 6 pp. of close print).
The following are the titles of speeches : — English Legisla-
tion in 1846— -Growth of the National Spirit; Arms Act —

32 GUlDfl TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Polisli Insun-ection ; Political ' economy — morality of self-
government; Imprisonment of Smith O'Brien; Accession
of' Whigs to Office ; Freedom of opinion — morality of war
(containing celebrated passage On the Sword) ; Irish Con-
federation; Galway Election— struggle against England;
Coercion; Irish Pauperism; American benevolence; Self-
reliance; Resurrection of Italy; Spirit of the North; The
French Eevolution — appeal to arms; Vindication of Sedi-
tion; Transportation of Mitchel; The Belgian Revolution
(4 letters) : and 3 or 4 others. Meagher certainly ranks
with our greatest orators. His speeches are impassioned
and fiery, but they are powerful and logical as well.

Gaskin (J. J.). Carlisle .(Earl of). The Vice Regal
Speeches and Addresses. Portrait. 8vo. 5s.
(Dublin). 1865.

(Collected and edited by J. J. Gaskin).

Gladstone (W. E.). Speeches. Edited by A. W. Hut-
ton, M.A., and H. J. Cohen, M.A. (Avith approval
of author). Vol. I., 1886-8; Vol. II., 1888-1891.
(Methuen). 1902.

Vol. I. contains speeches on Home Rule (five) ; Welsh
and Irish Nationality ; The Irish Question in 1887 ; Mitchels-
town ; State of Ireland (1888) ; Government and Ireland
(1888).

Vol. II. — Criminal Law in Ireland; Irish Question (1888);
The Eisteddfod; Ireland, The Labour Question (1890);
Pamell (1891), etc., etc. Several are non -political, dealing
rather with the question of nationality or with non-political
contemporary events.

O'Hagan (Lord). Selected Speeches. Ed. by George
Teeling. Pp. 527. (Longmans). Portrait.
1885.

Selected with " the design of attracting attention to Lord
O'Hagan 's consistent and unvarying devotion to the cause
of the civil and religious liberties of Ireland " (Preface).
Lord O'Hagan joined the Repeal Association in 1843 as a
Federalist. He retained his early convictions to the end
of his life. The book consists of I. — Speeches on Various
Occasions (before the Repeal Association, against the
Nunnery Bill, at the unveiling of the Moore memorial,

PEOSE LITEBATUEB. 33

■ etc.)- II- — Speeches and arguments at the bar (defence
of Gavan Duffy, 1842, sentence on William Mackey, a
Fenian, 1868, etc.). III. — Parliamentary speeches (in
defence of Catholic liberties, on Irish education, and on
Irish land legislation). The last speech is dated 1882.

Sullivan (A. M.). 1830-1884. Speeches and Ad-
dresses. (1859-1881). Pp. 252. - (Dublin : Sulli-
van). [1st ed., 1878)] 5th ed. 1887.
25 essays in all. I. 14 Political, II. 2 Social, III. 3
Religious, IV. 2 Biographical, V. 1 Personal, VI. 3 Speeches
at the Bar. Delivered some in England, some in Ireland,
some in Parliament, some on the platform. Not laboured
and pompous harangues, but nervous, trenchant, and to
the point — sometimes reaching high levels of excellence.
The subjects have by no means lost their interest. They
include National Independence, The Irish Abroad, The
Grattan Statue, The Fenian Rising (spoken 8th March,
1867, Charles Stewart Parnell (1874), The Irish Case, John
MacHale, The Moore Centenary, The Wearing of the
Green (spoken 20th February, 1868, in his own defence
after his arrest on a charge of sympathy with the Man-
chester Martyrs). '

O'Reilly (John Boyle). 1844-1890. Speeches,
occupying Pp. 711-786 in the volume containing
his life, poems and speeches. Ed. by his widow,
with Introduction by Card. Gibbons, the Life being
by J. J. Eoche. (Fisher Unwin). 1891.

The following are of Irish interest : — Moore Centenary,
The Irish National Cause (1890), Ireland's commercial and
industrial resources (1886), Address to Henry Grattan, A
Patriot's monument (spoken in 1885 on the occasion of
the erection of a monument to John Edward Kelly, an Irish
Fenian). Besides these there are only two other speeches.
AH were delivered in U.S.A.

Redmond (John E.), M.P. Historical and Political
Addresses. 1883-1897. Pp. 390. Demy 8vo.,
(Sealy, Bryers & Walker). 5s. 1898.
The author (Preface) rightly claims that the subjects dealt
with are of permanent interest to Irishmen. 1. Fifteen
years in the House of Commons (delivered in New York).
2. Hugh O'Neill. 3. Was the Land League responsible
for crime? 4. Aims and object of National League. 5.

D

34 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Irish Protestants and Home Rule. 6. Thomas Drummond.
7 Wexford in '98. 8. Home Rule — its real meaning. 9.
Home Rule Bill, 1886. 10. Ditto, 1893. 11. At Irish
National Convention in Chicago. 12. Coercion Act
(defence of self at Ferns). 13. Coercion Act (defence of
Dillon, O'Brien, etc.). 14-15. Parnell Crisis (in Cominittee
Room 15). 16. The National Demand. 17. Speech in New
York, 1892. 18. Amnesty for political prisoners. 19.
Financial relations.

Speeches on Home Rule, 1886-1909. Pp. xl. +

348. Demy 8vo. (Fisher Unwin). 1910.

Edited by R. Barry O'Brien, who contributes an Introduction
— a review of political events in Mr. Redmond's lifetime and
of Mr. Redmond's share in them, with a backward glance
at politics since the middle of the last century. Mr.
Redmond's speeches are happily and justly described by
the editor as " persuasive, dignified, moderate in tone,
skilful in arrangement, clear in exposition, logical and
incisive in character."

Selections from the Speeches of Irish Orators.

Phillips (Charles) : Specimens of Irish Elocjuence.
Illustrated. Pp. 435. (London). 1819.

Arranged and collected, with biographical notices. Selec-
tions from Burke, Curran, Grattan, Sheridan, Burrowes,
Bushe, Plunket, and Flood.

FiNLAX (J.) Irish Eloquence. Pp. 551. (Phila-
delphia: Biddle), 1851. (Boston: Donahoe),
1857.

" The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Phillips,
Curran and Grattan ; to which is added the powerful appeal
of Robert Emmet, at the close of his trial for high treason.
Selected by a member of the bar." "The speeches of
Phxlhps are now for the first time offered to the world in
an authentic form." Only five of Grattan's included. A
good selection;

The Household Book of Irish Eloquence Pp 701
(N.Y.: Kenedy). 1.26 net. C. 1903.
Selected speeches of O'Connell, Curran, Grattan Plunket
find other Jrish orators, '

• PROSE LITERATURE. 35

Sullivan (T. D., A. M., and D. B.) Speeches from the
Dock: Protests of Irish Patriotism. Pp. 360.
(Gill). 2s. 52nd edition at present in print. P.
J. Kenedy, of New York, has lately brought out a
fine new edition in large type, with 9 full-page
illustrations. 408 pp. 12mo. $1.25.

Speeches of Eobert Emmet, Wolfe Tone, O'Brien,
Meagher, Mitchel, William Orr, the Brothers Sheares,
Thomas Russell, John Martin, M'Manus, Allen, Larkin and
O'Brien, John O'Leary and all the Fenians. A large
portion of the volume is devoted to accounts by the editors
of the lives of the speakers and of the circumstances in
which they spoke. All this is told in language eloquent
and fervent, often vibrating with patriotism but without
rant. The authors themselves were tried for their share
in national movements, and Mr., A. M. Sullivan's speech
from the dock is given. Some of the later speeches seem
hardly worthy of remembrance. The motto of the book
might be : —

Truth for ever on the scaffold, wrong for ever on the

throne, —
Yet that seafiold sways the future, and, behind the dim

unknown,
Standeth God" within the shadow, keeping watch above

His own.

Many years ago a neat little .16mo volume entitled The Beau-
ties of Orattan (186 pages) was brought out by Alfred Howard
in his series, The Beauties of Literature. Grattau's miscel-
laneous works and his letters are drawn upon as well as his
speeches. The selection is good, but there are no notes and no
introduction. In the same series appeared The Beauties of
Burhe and The Beauties of Sheridan.

36 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

O. — Books about Irish Literature.

1. GAELIC LITERATUEE.

Arnold (Matthew). On the Study of Celtic Literature.
Popular ed. Pp. xix. + 152. (Smith, Elder).
2s. 6d. [1st ed., 1867 ; a very great number since].
1908. New ed. (Nutt). 3s. 6d. 1911.

Lectures delivered in the Chair of Poetry in Oxford (1867).
"Admirable in critical insight and sympathy, though out
of date as regards the positive information given. But
with this caveat no better introduction to the study of
Celtic antiquity can be recommended." — (Alfred Nutt in
Celtic and Mediaeval Romance, 1904.) A general estimate
of the characteristics and of the value of Welsh and Irish
literature, pointing out the debt owed to them by English
literature and the influence of Celtic upon English genius.
Matthew Arnold w^s one of the greatest of English critics.
He was a latter-day prophet of culture, warring ever
against that peculiar compound of vulgarity, coarseness and
unintelligenoe which he dubbed " Philistinism."

Duffy (Sir Charles Gavan), Dr. Sigerson, and Dr.
Douglas Hyde. " The Revival of Irish Litera-
ture." Pp. 161. (Unwin). Is. 1894.

A little book of quite exceptional value and importance.
First come two addresses in which, before the Irish
Literary Society of Loudon, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy set
forth his plans for popularising Irish literature and re-
nationalising the Irish people. (2) A lecture delivered by
Dr. Sigerson at the inauguration of the Irish National
Literary Society (Dublin) on Irish Gaelic Literature : Its
origm, environment and influence— written in exquisite
style and condensing great erudition and wide culture
(3) Douglas Hyde " On the Necessity for De-Anglicising
Ireland," a masterly and vigorous speech that practically
started the Gaelic Hevival.

D'Arbois de Jubainville (H.). Essai d'un Catalogue
de la Litterature Epique de I'lrlande. Pn civ +
282. (Paris: Thorin). 1883. -^P-Civ. +

Two Parts. I.— Etude sur les MSS. en langue irlandaise
conserves dans les iles brittaniques et sur 'le continent
II,— The catalogue itself arranged in alphabetical order

PROSE LITERATUEE. 37

according to the titles in Irish of tlie MSS. Part I. is a
pleasantly told account of the author's journey from library
to library and of the treasures he found in each. In the
catalogue itself (Part II.) he gives full title of MS. in
Irish, translation of same, place in library, probable date,
cycle to which it belongs (e.g., Ossianic, Cuchulainn, etc.),
what translations or editions of it have been published,
and other particulars. Good index to whole work.

JuBAiNviLLE (H. D'Arbois de). Cours de Litterature
Celtique. 8 vols. (Paris: Thoiin). 8fr. 1883.

Contents of Vol. I. — Liv. I. Les Bardes; liv. II. Les
Druides; liv. III. Les File. In book I., ch. 1, gives
primitive texts about the bards, ch. 5 treats of the Irish
bards. In book II., ch. 6 and 14 are devoted expressly to
Irish druidism. Nearly the whole of Book III. is con-
cerned with the Irish file. Ch. 9, the schools of Ireland
in the, 6th, 7th, and 8th centuries, is of peculiar interest.
Vol. II. — ^Le Cycle Mythologique Irlandais, a translation
of which has been published by Mr. B. I. Best. Vols.
III. and IV.— The Mabinogion (Welsh)— V. and VI.
L'Epppee Celtique en Irlande (see below), VII. and VIII. — ■
Etudes sur le droit Celtique, a course of lectures delivered
at the " College de France." M. d'Arbois de Jubainville
was one of the greatest of Celtic scholars, ranking with
Zimmer, Windisch, Stokes, Meyer and Strachan. These
lectures are rather erudite than popular or interesting to
the general reader.

" L'Epopee Celtique en Irlande." V. I. Pp. xliv. + 531. (All
published). Part I. Fragments du cycle d'Ulster. II.
Fragments du cycle de Leinster. III. Fragments du cycle
mythologique. A series of translations (by the editor,
d'Arbois de Jubainville, assisted by Messrs. Dottin, Duvan,
Lot and Grammont) of ancient Irish epics and sagas. Each
piece is preceded by a preliminary note, sometimes of
considerable length, giving particulars of the piece in
question and the MS. from which it was taken.

O'Grady (Standish). Early Bardic Literature of Ire-
land. Pp. 88. (Ponsonby). 1879 and 1882.

An essay not erudite nor antiquarian, but popular in style,
enthusiastic and picturesque in presentment, of Early
Ireland, as pictured by the bardic or epic literature. A
kind of introduction to the author's History of Ireland,
Mythical Period.

38 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Squire (Charles). The Mythology of the British
Islands. (Blackie). 12s. 6d.

Subt. : — An Introduction to Celtic myth, legend, poetry,
and romance.

Hyde (Douglas). Story of Early Gaelic Literature.
Pp. XXV. + 174. (Unwin New Irish Library).
2s. 1903.

" Early," i.e., to end of Danish period. " Literature " —
chiefly historical, heroic, and romantic, the great cycles
being specially dealt with. A rapid survey, intended for
the general reader. Not, however, dealing in vague
generalities but portraying rather the spirit fhan the
bibliography of the literature. Illustrated by translations
in ^some of which an effort is made to reproduce the
peculiarities of Irish metres. See especially p. 174.

Hyde (Douglas), LL.D., M.R.I. A. Literary History of
Ireland. Pp. 654. (Unwin). 16s. Copious
Index. [1899]. 4th ed., 1906.

" My object . . . has been to give a general view of
the literature produced by the Irish-speaking Irish, and to
reproduce by copious examples some of its more salient
. . . features " (Preface). Chapters on " Who were the
Celts?" How far can native sources be relied on? Early
Irish religion and civilization. The Brehon Laws. Most
noteworthy is the last chapter on the History of Irish as
a' spoken language. The writer is a very distinguished
scholar. He is president of the Gaelic League. The
present work gives on every page proof of his great
erudition, and thorough mastery of the subject.

Hull (Eleanor). A Text Book of Irish Literature.
Part I. Pp. 20 + X. + 260. (Gill). 3s. 190G.

" Prepared to meet the requirements of students under the
Intermediate Board," and now extensively used throughout
Ireland as a text-book. Though not very technical in
language, the book is for rather advanced students. Begins
with elaborate chronology (18 pp.). In the body of the
work the literature is grouped by classes : — Early Mytho-
logical, Red Branch, The TAin, Love Tales, Prose
Puomances, Visions, Ecclesiastical Writings, Poetry of
Nature, etc. Appendix on the old MS. books. Full index.

PROSE LITERATURE. 39

Part II. Pp.292. (Gill). 3s. 1908.

The volume deals fully with the question of the origin and
spread of the Fenian and Ossianio Tales and Ballads, and
with the Historical and Annalistic literature of Ireland.
It takes up the Bardic poetry at the point at which it was
left in the first volume, and deals with the Jacobite Poetry
of the eighteenth century, and with the popular songs and
ballads down to our own day. The Chronology of Irish
writers is carried on from 1550 to 1830, and a full biblio-
graphy to both volumes is added as an Appendix. In
neither part is there question of Irish literature written
in English.

McLean (Magnus), M.A., D.Sc. The Literature of the
Celts : its History and Romance. Pp. 395.
(Blackie). 7s. 6d. 1902.

" A popular introduction to the study of the literature."
The substance of a series of lectures delivered in Glasgow.
Treats of, first the Dawn of Celtic literature; St. Patrick
as the Pioneer of Celtic writers ; St. Columba and the dawn
of Celtic letters in Scotland; Adamnan's Life of St.
Columba; Book of Deer; the MSS legacy of the past; the
various cycles (mythological, etc.); Celtic literary revivals;
influence of Church on Gaelic literature; influence cf Celtic
on English literature ; master gleaners of Gaelic poetry ;
master scholars of Celtic literature. Entertaining style,
showing much enthusiasm. Not a mere vague sketch, but
based on solid facts (and even figures when necessary).
Good indexes. The same author has also published " The
Literature of the Highlands." (Blackie.) 7s. 6d.

MacNeill (Dr. Nigel), Minister of Bedford. The
Literature of the Highlanders. Pp. 350. (Inver-
ness : John Noble). 5s. 1892.

A History of Gaelic Literature from early times to the
present day. Claims to be " the first complete account of
Gaelic literature that has been offered to the public." . . .
" The names of about 180 composers of Gaelic poetry alone
occur in this volume, while not more than a third of that
number will be found in any previous work on the subject."
Contains chapters on " Patrick," " Brigid," and
" Columba." Clear and concise. Illustrative extracts are
given.

40 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

RiDGWAY (W.). The Date of the First Shaping of the
Cuchulin Saga. (Oxford: Clarendon Press). 3s.
net. 1907.

Walker's (J. C.) Essay on the Origin of Romantic
Fabling in Ireland. 4to. 1806.

NuTT (Alfred) ed. Popular Studies in Mythology,
Romance, and Folklore. A little series of 6d.
booklets intended to be popular and suggestive
rather than erudite. Each consists of from 40-60
pp. The text is free from notes and references, but
at the end there is a chronological and a biblio-
graphical appendix. Of Irish interest are the fol-
lowing : —

1. Celtic and Mediaeval Romance. By Alfred Nutt. 2nd
ed. 1904. The influence of Celtic (including Welsh and
Irish) romantic literature on the mediaeval (1140-1240)
romance of Arthur and his knights which flourished in
Brittany. State of society in mediaeval Ireland inciden-
tally touched on.

3. Ossian and the Ossianio Literature. By Alfred Nutt.
1899. A discussion of the origin, growth, and evolution
of that body of Irish literature known as the Ossianic or
Fenian cycle, with some remarks as to its literary merit.
8. Cuchulainn, the Irish Achilles. By Alfred Nutt. 1900.
First summarises the whole Saga. Then gives the conclu-
sions of criticism as to its date and development, comparing
it with other ancient epics, and estimating its value.

Gkegoey (Lady). Poets and Dreamers. Pp. 254.
(Hodges, Figgis). 3rd ed. 1903.

An effort to come at and to reproduce without embellish-
ment or " cooking " of any kind the poetry and romance
of the mind of the Gaelic-speaking Irish peasant. Thus
there is a long and pleasant rambling chat about the poet
Raftery , gleaned from peasant talk. " Workhouse Dreams, "
rambling, disjointed stories heard from inmates of the
poorhouse. " The Wandering Tribe," a talk about the
Gipsies. " Herb-Healing " and " Mountain Theology,"

PEOSE LITEEATURJi;. 41

floating and fragmentary folk-fancies. Besides tliis, there
is an essay on Douglas Hyde's poems with translations of
them. The same is done for four of his plays. There
is an essay on Boer Ballads, another on Jacobite Ballads,
another on West Irish Ballads. The translations throughout
are painfully literal and bald, but this is doubtless due to
the author's purpose.

MacLeod (Fiona). Tlie Winged Destiny. Vol. V. in
collected works. Pp. 365. (Heinemann). 5s.
net. [1904.] New ed., 1910.

Subt. : — Studies in the spiritual history of the Gael. Con-
tains — I. The Sunset of Old Tales — fragments of old
stories gleaned' in remote places of the Hebrides and
wrought into a kind of weird beauty by a poet's mind.
The real men and women of the tale live in a misty spirit-
world. II. Children of Water consists of similar tales.
III. For the Beauty of an Idea — reflections on the Celtic
movement on which the author expresses somewhat curious
personal views. In " The Gaelic Heart " he endeavours
to portray by tales and allegories the spirit of the Gael. IV.
Anima Celtioa — in this he insists on the treasures of
spiritual beauty cherished in the literature and legend of
the Gael. Includes articles on Carmichael's Carmina
Gadelica, E. Carbery's Four Winds of Erin, Lady
Gregory's Cuohulainn, Yeats's The Shadowy Waters. V.
The Winged Destiny — somewhat obscure and pantheistic
musings on Nature and Fate. One of the most beautiful
books that have appeared in the New Century.

2. ANGLO-IRISH LITEEATUBE.

No general history of Anglo-Irish Literature has as
yet been produced. The most valuable work on this
subject that has appeared up to the present is un-
doubtedly Brooke and RoUeston's Treasury of Irish
Poetry, for an account of which see p. 70. Probably
the larger portion of this work is taken up by critical
and biographical accounts of Irish poets written by
the best authorities.

Individual biographies of Irish writers will be found
in the Biographical Section, Vol. II.

42 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

McCarthy (Denis Florence). The Poets and Drama-
tists of Ireland. Vol. I. (all published). Pp. 252.
16mo. (Duffy). [Duffy's Library of Ireland].
1846.

Does not seem to have reached a 2n(l edition. Introduotion
gives " the religious opinions and forms of worship of our
pagan ancestors, as well as tlieir state of literary and
general knowledge." To this is added "a rapid sketch
of our most eminent early Christian writers, accompanied
with translations." Object of book: — To claim, as Irish,
authors writing in England and in English but, born in
Ireland. Gives specimens and short biographical account
of following : — Stanihurst, Lodowick, Barry, Denham,
Roger Boyle, Roscommon, Flecknoe, Nahum Tate,
Southern, Swift, Thomas Sheridan, P. Delany, Dunkin,
Congreve, Farquhar, Steele, Samuel Madden, Sir T.
Parnell.

O'DoNOGHUE (D. J.). The Poets of Ireland, Bio-
graphical Dictionary. (O'Donoghue). [1893].
1911.

Contains in alphabetical order the names of over 2,000
writers of verse or poets of Irish origin (in the widest
sense) with titles and dates of their works, and, where any
such could be discovered, biographical details. The earliest
of these pcets wrote about '1740, for Gaelic poets are not
included. Of course the book contains the names of
many worthless scribblers, but this was inevitable, as the
author claims almost absolute completeness. The author
has been at great pains to clear up by original research
many controverted points as to birth, nationality, dates,
authorship, anonymity, etc. A work of enormous research.
A new edition (practically re-written) is in course of prepara-
tion. Two fascicules have been issued separately, but the
whole work is shortly to appear in a single volume. It
will comprise about 5,000 writers of verse in English, the
volumes whose titles are given numbering not less than
20,000. In the great majority of instances the entries
include biographical details. While the bibliography of the
well-known poets is very full, special trouble is taken to
give details of obscurer writers. Great numbers of anonyms
and pseudonyms have been identified and many literary
obscurities elucidated. The volume is to be published by
Messrs. Hodges and Figgis.

paoSE LITERATURE. 43

Ryan (W. P.)- The Irish Literary Revival: its His-
tory, Pioneers, and Possibilities. Pp. 184.
(Ward and Dovimey). 1894. Portraits of D. J.
O'Donoghne, P. J. MoCall, T. W. RoUeston, Gavan
Duffy, Stopford Brooke, William O'Brien, M.P. ; A.
P. Graves, Michael MacDonagh, W. B. Yeats,
Douglas Hyde, John O'Leary, and others, vi^ith an
account of the literary labours of most of these and
of a host of other workers and pioneers.

The fullest information is given about the various Irish
literary movements from 1884-94. First there is an
account of the enthusiastic band of young Irish writers
known as the Southwark Club, which developed later into
the Irish Literary Society of London. Then comes the
Dublin Pan-Celtic Association, which afterwards became
the National Literary Society. Finally, there is an account
of the work and workers of the Literary Societies in
Belfast, in Cork and in various English provincial centres.
All this is told in a fascinating way. It chronicles a
multitude of generous hopes and aspirations, some that
have won fruition, many that are extinguished for ever.

McGee (Thomas D'xArcy). The Irish Writers of the
Seventeenth Century. 16mo. Pp. 252. (Du.ffy).
Is. 1st ed., 1846; many since, but now out of
print.

Popular accounts of Florence Conroy, P. O'Sullivan Beare,
Geoffry Keating, James Usher, Ward, Colgan and O'Clery,
Sir James Ware, John Lynch, Bishop of Killala; Luke
Wadding, Duald MaoFirbis, David Bothe, Peter Walsh,
Nicholas French, Dominick O'Daly, Peter Talbot, Oliver
Plunket, Roderick O 'Flaherty, Hugh O'Reilly, JBernard
O'Connor, Wm. Molyneux. Written in very readable style.

O'Hagan (John). The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson.
Pp. 88. (Gill). 1887.

An analysis and appreciation, with citations, by a personal
friend of the poet. " I have endeavoured to express in
these pages my sense, not only of Sir S. Ferguson's genius
as a poet, but of his singular success in giving to Irish
legends and traditions, to the manners, feelings, and
distinctive features of the Irish race, due expression in the
English language."

44 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Yeats (W. B.). John M. Synge and the Ireland of his
Time. Pp. 43. (The Cuala Press). 350 copies
printed. 1911.

Intended as an Introduction to Maunsel's edition of J. M.
Synge 's collected works, but not published as intended
because of disagreement with the publisher. Less an
account of Synge 's life and writings than a psychology of
him. The author thereby takes occasion to set forth his
own peculiar literary and other ideals, and to reprobate the
prevailing political Nationalism. Appended is a vivid little
account by Jack B. Yeats of a walk in Connemara with
J. M. Synge.

Dr. E. R. Madden's History of Periodical Literature,
from the end of the 17th to the middle of the 19th
century, will be found very useful. For a full
note on it see Vol. III. under " Periodicals."

Keans (H. S.). W. B. Yeats and the Irish Literary
Eevival. Pp. 196. (Heinemann). Is. 6d.
[Contemporary men of letters series, 1905].

" A sketch of the Irish literary revival that may serve as
a background to tha work of Mr. Yeats." (Pref.) Appre-
ciative and informing rather than critical in tone.
Pleasantly written. Contains bibliography of Yeats. The
first chapter deals briefly with other prominent figures in
the new movement.

It is hoped that an account of the chief Literary
Reviews will be included in the Section " Periodicals "
in Vol. III. of the present work.

3. IRISH WRITERS.

Some important books dealing with Irish writers will be found
in_ other sections, notably D. J. O'Donoghue's Dictionary of
Irish Poets, and Geographical Distribution of Irish AbQity.
Many of the General Collections of Irish Literature and many
of the Anthologies of Poetry have biographical details of the
writers. This section contains merely a number of reference
books dealing explicitly with the subject, and not classifiable
elsewhere.

PEOSE LITERATUEE. 45

Tannee (Thomas). Bibliotheca Brittanico-Hibernica
(London). 1748.

" Sive de scriploribus qui in Anglia, Sootia, et Hibemia
ad saeculi 17 initium floruerunt, literarum ordine juxta
familiarum nomina dispositis commentarius."

Wake (Sir James). History of the Writers of Ireland.
Was first published in Latin in 1639. Walter Harris, in
1764, translated and revised it, supplied omissions, and
continued it down to 1700. The quantity of new matter
added by Harris amounts to over 250. folio pages out of 363,
but Harris drew largely on MS. notes left by Ware, who
died in 1666. The work consists of a catalogue, in chrono-
logical order, of Irish writers, with a list of the works of
each. In many eases biographical particulars are added.
" Irish writers " are divided into two classes — I. " Such
writers who were born in that kingdom " (306 pp.). II.
" Such who, though foreigners, enjoyed preferments or
offices there, or had their education in it." N.B. — Harris's
preface shows an anti-Catholic bias alien to the mind of
Ware.

O'Reilly (Edward). Irish Writers. Pp. 233. 4to.

A chronological account of nearly four hundred Irish
writers, commencing with the earliest account of Irish
history, and carried down to the year of our Lord 1750,
with a descriptive catalogue of such of their works as are
still extant, in Verse or Prose, consisting of upwards of
one thousand separate tracts. Was published in the
Transactions of the Ibernp-Celtic Society in , 1820.
Includes only writers of Irish. Occasionally very brief
biographical notes are given. Chronological order. Most
of the works catalogued are unpublished. A work of
immense labour and erudition, and the only one on the
subject.

N.B. — 'Conor's Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres is
not a bibliography nor an account of Irish writers, but an edition
of some of the early Irish Annals, e.g., Ulster, Tighernach,
Innisfallen, etc.

Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great
Britain and Ireland, Literary Memoirs, Anecdotes,
List of their Publications, No. of Editions, &c. 8vo.
bds., 5s. 1816.

46 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON lEELAND.

DuvAU (Louis). Les Poetes de Cour Irlandais et Scan-
dinaves. 1896. A " these de doctorat " of less
than 50 pp.

Mr. T>. J. O'Donoghue, Librarian of University College,
N.U.I. , Dublin, has in preparation a volume on Irish
Pseudonyms. It will consist of a list of all the pseudonyms of
Irish writers, Avith the real names revealed, followed by a list
of authors, with their pseudonyms, and a few biographical details,
as far as such are discoverable. Some thousands of pseudonyms
are dealt with.

4. SOME BOOKS ABOUT THE THEATEE IN IRELAND.
By Joseph Holloway.

^a) History of the Theatre in Ireland (including
Dramatic Criticism).

Chetwood (W. R.). " A General History of the Stage,
more particularly the Irish Theatre, from its orgin
in Greece down to the present time. With the
Memoirs of the principal performers that have ap-
peared on the Dublin Stage for the last fifty years.
With notes, ancient, modem, foreign, domestic,
serious, comic, moral, merry, historical, geographi-
cal. Containing many Theatrical Anecdotes. Also
several pieces of Poetry never before published."
Printed by E. Rvder, of George's Lane, Dublin, in
1749.

This is a useful book of reference on the stage of that
period, and contains many biographical notes of contem-
porary players.

Shea (P.). A Full Vindication of Thomas Sheridan,
Esq. Being an Answer to a scurrilous Pamphlet'
entitled " The Case of the Stage." (Second Edi^
tion). Dublin. Printed in the year 17.58,
An essay full of biting, bitter sarcasm.

PBOSE LITEEATUEE. 47

SiiEEiDAN (Thomas). Mr. Sheridan's Address to the
Town. Printed by Martineau & Kinneir, on the
Lower Blind Keys, near Fishamble Street. 1743.
Pamphlet.

A Letter to Messieurs Victor and Sowdon, Managers of
the Theatre Royal. Dublin. Printed in the year
1755.

An interesting pamphlet, calling attention to some of the
abuses of the stage in Dublin in those days.

Bakee (David Erskine). Biographia Dramatica; or,
A Companion to the Playhouse.

Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and original
Anecdotes of British and Irish Dramatic Writers from the
commencement of our Theatrical Exhibitions : amongst
whom are some of the most celebrated actors. Also an Alpha-
betical Account of their Works, the dates when printed,
and occasional Observations on their Merits, together with
an Introductory View of the Rise and Progress of the
British Stage. A new edition, carefully corrected, greatly
enlarged, and continued from 1764 to 1782. Published in
Two Volumes. Dublin, 1782. An invaluable book of
reference.

Hitchcock (Robert). An Historical View of the Irish
Stage from its earliest period down to the season
of 1788. Interspersed with Theatrical Anecdotes
and an Occasional Review of the Irish Dramatic
Authors and Actors.

This work was published in two volumes, the first in 1788
and the second in 1794. The author held the post of
prompter in Smock Alley Theatre.

Ceokee (John Wilson) Familiar Epistles to Frederick
E. J(one)s, Esq., on the present state of the Irish
Stage. 12mo. Boards, Is. 6d. (Dublin). 18D4.

Jones (Frederick E.). Thoughts on Familiar Epistles.
An answer to above.

Jones was the manager of Crow Street Theatre at that time,

48 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

OwENsoN (Robert). Theatrical Tears occasioned by
the perusal of Familiar Epistles.

Owenson was an actor, and father of Lady Morgan.

Kilkenny Private Theatricals. With Introductory
Observations on other Private Theatres in Ireland
before it was opened. 4to. Boards. Rare. Only
80 copies printed for private circulation. £2 2s.
1825.

Calcbaft (John William). A Defence of the Stage,
or an Inquiry into the Real Qualities of Theatrical
Entertainments, their Scope and Tendency. Being
a Reply to a Sermon, entitled " The Evil of Theatri-
cal Ainusements Stated and Illustrated," lately
published in Dublin, and preached in the Wes-
leyan Methodist Chapel in Lower Abbey Street, on
Sunday, November 4, 1838, by the Rev. Dr. John
B. Bennett, including an Examination of the
Authorities on which that Sermon is founded.
Published in Dublin. (Milliken & Son). 1839.

Mr. Calcraft was the Lessee and Manager of the Theatre
Royal, Dublin, at the time.

Levey (R. M.) and O'Roubke (J.). Theatre Royal.
Annals of the Theatre Roval, Dublin, 1821 to
1880. Or. 8vo. Cloth, 3s. 6d. (Dublin). 1880.

"With occasional notes and ohservations," says the title
page, and that just sums up the book. Mr. Levey was
musical director of old Theatre Royal from 1837ll880.
He was born in 1811, and died on June 28, 1899.

Genest (Rev. John). Some Account of the English
Stage from the Restoration to 1830.

Some valuable information about Irish players is to be
found in this work. The writer was a Bath clergyman.
The work was published in 1SS2.

PROSE LTTEEATURE. 49

Victor (B.) A History of the Irish Stage from
■ 1730 to 1761.

This writer was manager of Smock Alley Theatre for a
time. His book is reliable as far as it goes.

DoRAN (Dr. J.) . Their Majesties Servants ; or, Annals
of the English Stage, from. Thomas Betterton to
Edmund Kean. Actors, Authors, Audiences.
Second Edition (revised, corrected and enlarged).
(London: Wm. H. Allen & Co.). 1865.

A capital book of reference — full of matter relating to
Irish talent.

The History of the Theatre Royal (Hawkins Street,
Dublin). Reprinted from Saunders's News-Letter,
by Ponsonby, in 1870.

A book full of interest.

Hughes (Rev. S. C). The Pre-Victorian Drama in
•Dublin.

This little volume gives an account of the performances
on the Dublin Stage from the days of John Ogilby's
Theatre in Werburgh Street, 1635.

Gilbert (Sir John T.). The History of Dublin.

This work contains, besides other interesting theatrical
matter, an account of the mystery or miracle plays per-
formed in 1528.

Fahy (Francis A.) and O'Donoghue (David J.). Ire-
land in London. Evening Telegraph Reprints,
VII. 1889.

Full of interesting matter about the stage, Irish players,
and Irish dramatists,

Flynn (J. W.). Random Recollections of ar|. Old Cork
Playgoer.. . ;

An excellent peep into theatrical matters in the South.

50 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Wallack (Lester). Memoirs of Fifty Years.

A book full of interesting notes and portraits of Irish
players, etc.

Mor.LOY (J. Fitzgerald). The Romance of the Irish
Stage. 2 vols. (Downey). 2nd ed., 1897.

Subt. : — With pictures of the Irish capital in the 18th
century (C. 1730, sq.). Covers, roughly, period 1700-1800.
A chatty, anecdotal account of -the fortunes of the various
theatres in Dublin, with many digressions to pick up a good
story or a picturesque incident. Illustrated out of old
biographies, news-sheets, play bills, and manuscripts. " A
whole library," says the Pref., " may be said to be con-
densed in this book." But the book is intended for
amusement, not for serious purposes, unless as a vivid
tnd lively picture of certain aspects of society at the time.

O'DoNNELL (Frank Hugh). The Stage Irishman of
the Pseudo-Celtio Drama. Pp.47. (Long). Is.
net. 1904.

An unsparing and even violent denunciation of certain of
the plays of W. B. Yeats, with numerous quotations from
a pronouncement on the same subject by Stephen Gwvnn
in 1901.

BoKSA (Mario). The English Stage of To-day. Trans-
lated from Italian and edited with a Prefatory
Note by Selwyn Bruton. With Chapters on the
Irish National Theatre and George Bernard Shaw
3s. 6d. 1908.

A most interesting contribution to the modern theatrical
movement in Ireland.

O'Neill (James J.). Irish Theatrical History. A
Biographical Essay. (Dublin : Browne &, Nolan)
Privately printed, 1910.

I found this essay most useful in compiling my list of boots
bearmg on the Irish Stage. Mr. O'NeiU is Uhrarian o?
the Boyal Irish Academy.

PROSE LITEHATUEE. 61

Howe (P. P.). The Repertoire Theatre. A Record and
a Criticism. (Published in London by Martin
Seeker). 1910. 2s. 6d. net.

There is much about the Abbey Theatre Company in
Chapter Two (experiments in Repertoire), and the list of
plays produced by the- Abbey Theatre Company and its
predecessors is included in the work.

Montague (G. E.). Dramatic Values. Book of Dra-
matic Criticisms. (London : Published by
Methuen & Co.). 5s. net.

The opening chapter is on The Plays of J. M. Synge,
and in the chapter on " Good Acting," the Abbey Com.-
pany comes in for great eulogy. (February 9, 1911).

Mair (G. H.), M.A. English Literature. Modern.
(Home University Library). Is. 1911.

In the chapter on " The Present Age," the Irish dramatic
movement is commented upon, and W. B. Yeats, J. M.
Synge, G. B. Shaw, etc., referred to.

MooEE (George). Ave. First Volume of Hail and Fare-
well. (Heinemann). 6s. 1911.

In this strange book the beginnings of the Irish Literary
Theatre are traced, and vivid pen pictures of those con-
nected with same given. The work to be completed in
three volumes.

(b) Actors and Playwrights.

Wilson (Mrs. C. Baron). Our Actresses; or, Glances
at Stage Favourites, Past and Present. In 2 vols;
(London : Published by Smith, Elder & Co.). 1844.

Full of interesting matter about Irish players, such as
Miss O'Neill (Lady Wrixon Beecher), Miss Smithson
(Madame Berlioz), Mrs. Glover, etc.

Finlay (John), LL.D. Miscellanies. (Published,
Dublin). 1835.

Containing Dramatic Criticism of Kean (1814-15), Kemble
(1815), Macready, Johnson, Warde, etc., on the Dublin

Stago.

52 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Pascoe (Charles E.), edited by. Our Actors and Ac-
tresses. The Dramatic List. A Record of the
Perfoniiances of Living Actors and Actresses on
the British Stage. Second Edition revised and
enlarged. (London : David Boyne) . 1880.
Most interesting particulars of Dion BouoicauH, Edmund
Falconer, Shiel Barry, J. D. Beveridge, and several other
Irish players may be found therein.

BicKLEY (Francis). J. M. Synge and the Irish Dra-
matic Movement. (Constable). 1911.

The foUo'iving books contain interesting reference to the Irish
Stage, etc. : —

Boaden's Life of Mrs. Siddons.
Davies' Life of Oarrick.
Augustin Daly's Life of Peg Woffington.
"W. J. Lawrence's Life of Barry Sullivan.
,, Life of G. V. Brooke.

Stayley's Life and Opinions of an Actor.
William Macready's Reminiscences.
Bobins' Twelve Great Actresses.
Gait's Lives of the Players.
Tate Wilkinson's Memoirs.

CooifE (William). Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Come-
dian. (London). 2nd ed. 1806.
With the dramatic characters, manners, anecdotes, etc.,
of the age in which he lived.

KiRKMAN (C. J.). Charles Macklin. Memoirs of his
Life. 2 vols. (London). 1799.

Parry (E. A.) Charles Macklin. Pp. 208. (Kegan,
Paul). 1891.

SiLLARD (Robert M.). Barry Sullivan and His Con-
temporaries. A Histronic Record, with Portraits.
In 2 volumes. (London. T. Fisher Unwin), 1901.
Full of interesting matter on the actor's visits to Ireland.

Winter (William). Life, Stories, and Poems of John
Brougham. Pp. x. + 461. (Boston: Osgood).
3 parts. 1881.

PtiOSE LitEEATUBE. 53

(c) Pamphlets, Periodicals and Articles.

Pamphlets. —

" A Full Vindication of the Manager of the Theatre
Eoyal, written by himself (Thomas Sheridan) , Dublin,
March ith, 1746-7."

" Dublin in an Uproar, or the Ladies Robbed of their
rieasure " — same period.

" An Appeal to the Publick, containing an Account
of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the First
Regular Theatre in Dublin, with the Causes of its De-
cline and Ruin," by Thomas Sheridan,

" A Familiar Dialogue between Mr. Crowe and Mr.
Alley, two Theatrical Taylors," 1762.

" Zanga's Triumph, or Harlequin and Othello at
War," 1762.

" Edwin's Pills to Purge Melancholy, with a
Humorous Account of Mr. Siddon's First Reception in
Dublin," 1783.

" An Answer to the Memoirs of Mrs. Billington, with
the Life and Adventures of Richard Daly . . .
written by a Gentleman Well Acc[uainted with Curious
Anecdotes of all Parties," 1792.

Periodicals. —

Theatrical Magazine (The), 1806.

Stage (The), 1821.

Theatrical Observer (The), 1821-2.

Theatre (The), 1822-3.

Nolan's Theatrical Observer, 1822-3.

Irish Playgoer (The), 1899-1900.

Dublin is sadly in need of an independent, theatrical
Journal like the latter to keep the stage sweet and whole-
some. Why is not such a one started?

The Weekly Theatrical Reporter, Nos. 1 to 8, from
Saturday, April 25th, 1829, to Saturday, June
13th, 1829. Published in Dublin.

" Commenting on the state of the Dublin Theatre under the
management of Mr. Bunn for two months in the year 1829.

54 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

A faithful account of the disgraceful manner in which it
was conducted, and the extraordinary puffs made use of
to mislead the opinions of the public by G. J. B."

Soiae Articles on Irish Dramatic Movement, etc. —

Irish Plays and Playwrights, by Charles Tennyson—
The Quarterly Review, July, 1911.

The Rise of the Irish Theatre, by Charles Tennyson
— The Contemporary Review, August, 1911.

W. B. Yeats and Ireland, by John McGrath — The
Westminster Review, July, 1911.
J. M. Synge and the Ireland of his Day, by W. B. Yeats
— The Forum, August, 1911.

The Synge Boom — ^Foreign Influence, by D. J.
O'Donoghue — The Independent, August 21, 1911.

Lecture on the Irish Peasant, by Dr. George Sigerson
— United Irishman, February 17, 1906.

Eecent Irish Drama and its Critics, by Rev. George
O'Neill, SJ.—The New Ireland) Review, March, 1906,
and also an article in June, 1899.

Neo-Paganism and the Stage, by Michael J. Gill,
B.A. — The New Ireland Review, May, 1907.

Mr. W. B. Yeats, the True Interpreter of Irish Mind,
by Alastair Maguire — The National Student, July,
1911,

Interview with J. M. Synge re The Playboy, by
(A. F.) — Dublin Evening Mail, January 29, 1907.

William Butler Yeats, by F. Sidgwick — The Illus-
trated English Magazine, June, 1903.

John Synge, by Mary C. Maguire.— The Irish Re-
view, March, 1911.

The Abbey Tlieatre, by " Jacob Tonson " (Arnold
Bennett)— T/ie New Age, August 17, 1911.

An Uncommercial Theatre, by Stephen Gwynn —
The Fortnightly Review, December, 1902.

Three Centuries of the Stage Literature of Ireland, by
W. A. .Henderson — The New Ireland Review, May,
1897. ^

The Writings of Mr. W. B. Yeats, by E. M. Duncan
—The Fortnightly Review, February, 1909.

PROSE LITERATURE. B5

Poetry and the Stage, by Stephen Gwynn — The Port-
nightly Review, February, 1909.

The Irish Peasant and the Abbey Theatre, by
Fred Ryan and Padraic Colum. — The Evening Tele-
graph, May 13, 20, and June 3, 1911.

An Autobiographical Sketch, by Miss Sara AUgood.
— The St. Patrick's Day No. of The Weekly Freeman,
1909 (March 20).

Dublin as a Play Producing Centre, by W. J.
Lawrence. — The Christmas No. of The Weekly Free-
man, 1907 (December 14).

Some Aspects of Our Anglo-Irish Poets. Lecture by
the Eev. George O'Neill, S.J.— T/ie Irish Catholic, De-
cember 23, 1911.

The Early Work of Mr. W. B. Yeats, by Forrest
Reid. — The Irish Review, January, 1912.

Two Plays (Eleanor's Enterprise and The Countess
Cathleen) : A Criticism by Captain Bryan Cooper. —
The Irish Review, January, 1912.

Lady Gregory and the Abbey Theatre, by John
Quinn.— T?ie Outlook (New York), December 16, 1911.

Some Articles on the Complete Edition of J. M. Synge's
Works. —

Pall Mall Gazette, January 16, 1911.

Irish Times, January 23, 1911.

Evening Standard, January 24, 1911.

Morning Post, January 2'6, 1911. (By Edmund
Gosse.)

Daily News, February 1, 1911. (By R. A. Scott
James.)

Daily Chronicle, February 4th, 1911. (By W. P.
Ryan).

A Few Articles in The Gael (New York).

The Irish Literary Theatre in New York (The
Heather Field)— June, 1900.

The Irish Stage, by Geraldine M. Haverty — S6ptem=>
ber and October, 1900.

B6 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Literary Theatre Week in Dublin, by Alice Milligaii
— December, 1901.

New Irish Plays Produced (Kathleen-ni-Houlihan
and Deirdre)— May, 1902.

An Al Fresco Irish Play in Dublin (The Tinker and
the Fairy), by Mary E. L. Butler— July, 1902.

Irish ISTational Theatre (Riders to tiie Sea, etc.) —
April, 1904.

E. — Miscellaneous.

It may be thought that some of the books included in this
sub-section ought scarcely to be classed as literature. On the
other hand, ^\■hen the list of headings is examined, these books
seem to fall moi'e naturally under the head of literature than
under any other.

O'Leary (John). What Irishmen Should Read, What
Irishmen Should Feel. 1886.

I have not been able to see a copy of this pamphlet, but
understand from those who liave read it that it contains
matter of considerable interest to Irish readers.

MacLeod (Fiona). Collected Works. Vol. IV. (Heine-
niann). 5s. net. 1910.

Contains : — 1. The Divine Adventure — a kind of Allegory
(tliough the author would not have it called so) ,of the
powers of the human soul, and 2. loua, a wonderful piece
of imaginative, or, as the author calls it, spiritual history,
i.e., the history which " reveals inward life, and hidden
significance, and palpable destiny." " I shall choose
legend and remembrance, and my own and other memories
and associations, and knowledge of my oM'n and others, and
hidden meanings, and beauty and strangeness surviving
iu dreams and imaginations, rather than facts and figures."
" To tell the story of lona is to go back to God and to
end in God." He eaUs St. Columba the " epitome of the
Gael " and lona the " Mecca of the Gael."

Yeats (W. B.). A Book of Images. Drawn by W. T.
Horton and Introduced by W. B. Yeats. ' (Elirin
Mathews). 2s. 6d.

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Webb (Alfred). Thoughts in Retirement.

A series of detached, pithy aphorisms on subjects which
throughout his life were vital to Mr. Webb. For very
iTiauy years he had been treasurer to the Nationalist Party
— one of the most unselfish and sterling patriots that
Ireland has produced. The subjects of the thoughts are
such as Democracy, Bigotry, Disunion, Home Rule, Par-
liamontarianism, Nationality.

Stevenson (John). Pat McCarty, Farmer of Antrim.
His Rhymes, with a Setting. ' (Arnold). 1903.

A miscellany of prose and verso, the former is partly
reflective and imaginative, partly narrative, the verse
(mostly i)i dialect) is flowing and often musical, but is
not ambitious. Some of it is luimorous. Divisions : —
Home and the Jlan, Wife and \^'o;1n, Tlie Winds and the
Sea (perhaps the best portion), The Flowers, The Abbey
Talcs (foolish, stories of old monks). Blethers (i.e., " dos
betises "), Love (The Coortin' o' Jeems Mcllhagga is
good). Life, The Earth Thrill (our relations with inanimate
nature), Death. The author shoM's his love for Ireland
(i.e., the land but perhaps not the nation).

SiJiTH (John). Irish Diamonds ; or, A Theory of Irish
Wit and Blunders. Post 8vo. Scarce. 1847.
With Illustrations by Pliiz.

SxiEJiiiAN fCanon P. A.). The Intellectuals. Pp. vii.
+ 386. (Longmans). Gs. 1911.

The proceedings of thirty-seven sessions of a literary Club
established in a town in the South of Ireland under the
chairmanship of a Catholic priest and composed of mem-
bers of different nationalities and creeds who meet to
discuss over their tea various questions in literature,
science, religion, and polities. The members arc all of
the middle-class, rather superior in tone, and have little
or nothing Irish about them. There ai'c not a few touches
of satire about Irish middle-class provincial life and Irish
polities. Parnell, among other Irish subjects, is discussed.
Interspersed with essays and poems after the manner of
the "Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table." Author's object
(see preface) to show that all the racial and religious
antagonisms in Ireland ma-y be ended by freer and more
intelligent intercourse between the people who make up the
Irish Commonwealth.

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Shaw (George Bernard). John Bull's Other Island.
Preface for Politicians. Pp. lix. (Constable).
1907.

George Bernard Shaw's chief pronouncement on Ireland.
It informs the Englishman as to the author's own inter-
pretation of his play. Contrasts English and Irish tem-
peraments. Treats of the characteristics of Irish Pro-
testantism, the moral and social effects of Irish
Nationalism, the anomaly of foreign government, the
attitude of Irish Catholics towards their Church (sup-
pressed hatred, according to Mr. Shaw), the folly of
militarism, England's Denshawai atrocities, etc. All in a
slashing if somewhat paradoxical style.

RoiSTE (Liam de). A Message to the Man. (Cork:
Shandon Publishing Co.). Is. 1908.

A work of exhortation to Irish people written from an Irish-
Ireland standpoint in an exalted strain that is not seldom
overdone. Great sincerity is the best characteristic of this
lay sermon.

Plunkett (Horace). Noblesse Oblige. (Maunsel).
Boards, Is. ; paper, 6d. 1908.

A work calling upon the Irish upper classes to take their
proper part in the regeneration of Ireland, that is, in those
economic movements which Sir Horace Plunkett looks
upon as the only ones calculated to bring about such a
regeneration.

Campbell (Joseph). Mearing Stones. (Maunsel).
3s. 6d. 1911.

Alias Seosamh MacCathmhaoil, the Poet q.v. " Leaves
from my note-book on tramp in Donegal " (Preface), in
form of detached paragraphs of fragmentary (but often
pregnant) thoughts and impression of nature or of life as
seen with a poet's eyes. Couched in language of quaint
simplicity with a Gaelic flavour. Tells how small things
struck him, and what people said to him on the way. In
all there is the breath of the open air and the atmosphere
of Donegal. The drawings are as quaint as the letter-
press.

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Hardy (Philip Dixon). Pic-Nics from the Dublin
Penny Journal. Pp. viii. + 328. 10 wood en-
gravings. 1836.

The Dublin Penny Journal, before it was ruined by Hardy,
was one of the most valuable periodicals that had appeared
in Ireland, and few have rivalled it since. It counted
araongita contributors Petrie (59 articles), John 'Donovan,
Sir Wm. Betham, John Banim, Carleton, Aubrey de Vera,
Sir W. Bowan Hamilton, Crofton Croker, Ed. Walsh, Dr.
Anster, Samuel Ferguson, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Col. Blacker,
David Herbison, Samuel Lover, etc. It ran weekly from
June, 1832, to June, 1836, but after No. 57 it is of little
value.

Halpine (Charles Graham). Baked Meats of the
Funeral, viii., 3-378 pp. 12mo. (Carleton, New
York). 1866.

" A collection of essays, poems, speeches, histories, and
banquets. By Private Miles O'Reilly [i.e., Charles G.
Halpine "].

Kelly (J. J.) and J. P. O'Byene. Irish Varieties.
Pp.111. (Dublin: Harrison). Is. 1891.

" Dedicated without permission to the Vinegar-cruets and
Mustard-pots of Society." Contents : — Life and adven.
tures of Charley Crofts — anecdotes and escapades (Cork in
'98) — The haps and mishaps of an Irish landlord — Major
Dismal's runaway duel — The friar of Dunraven's musical
tribulations, with an exercise . for the French horn (Mrs.
McGrath) — A lesson to lovers — Home Rule (a Farce).

III.-POETRY.

Some general remarks regarding this section will be found on
p. xii.

A. — Collections of Irish Poetry.

This sub-section is based on the list given by Mr. D. J.
U'Donoghue in the first edition of his Dictionary of the Poets
of Ireland. The arrangement is chronological.

Young (Eev. Dr.), M.R.I. A. Ancient Gaelic Poems,
respecting the Eace of the Fians. Collected in the
Highlands of Scotland in 1784, with English
Translations. 4:to. 5s. Scarce. (Uublin). '
1787.

Stott (Thomas). Ancient Irish Poetry. The Songs
of Deardra, translated from the Irish, with other
Poems. (London). 1825.

Brooke (Charlotte). Eeliques of Irish Poetry. 4to.
(Dublin). [4to.. 1788]. 2 vols. Bvo. 1816.

Translated by herself from the Irish into the eloquent and
formal phraseology of the period, and put into the most
artificial and elaborate classical and other metres. Yet by
no means without merit. The edition of 1816 has a
memoir by A. C. Seymour.

Habdiman (James), M.E.I.A. Irisli Minstrelsy. 2
large vols. Pp. Ixxx. + 376 + 435. (London:
Robins). Beautifully produced vols. 1831.
Gaelic originals, with verse translations by various hands.
Divided thus— (1) Eemaius of Carolau, " (2) Sentimental
Song, (3) Jacobite Relics, (4) Odes, Elegies, etc. Intro-
duction (pp. xl.) on Irish Minstrelsy. Memoirs of Carolan
and of Thomas Furlong. Copious explanatory notes in
very readable form at end of each section. (The transla-
tions of Carolan are done by Thomas Furlong. Most of the
translations read well in English. A collection of great
value and interest, probably the most valuable ever pub-
lished.

POETRY. 61

Ceoker (Thomas Croftonj. Popular Songs of Ireland.
Pp. 320. (Eoutledge). Is. [Morley's Universal
Library]. [1839]. 1886.

Chiefly faoetiEe contributed to various magazines (Black-
ivoods, The Sentiviental and Masonic, The Cork Southern
Reporter, etc.), or sung on festive occasions, at the end of
18th and beginning of 19th century, by Millildn, Maginn,
Kev. John Graham, Lysaght, and by various anonymous
writers. Arranged under 5 hgads : — (1) St. Patrick' (irre-
verent and- absurd, (2) The Potato, (3) Whiskey (pp. 66-
105), (4) The Irish Oak, (5) (pp. 119.eud) Local Songs.
Apart from some (not all) of the local songs, this is a
repertory of what has come to be known as the stage
Irishman, i.e., as described by Horatio Sheafe Krans, " the
Donnybrook Fair Irishman, characterised by whiskey, wit,
n Celtic screech, and the exhilarating whack of the shil-
lalah." Add to this the canbeen, the dudheen, the pig,
the pratie and the brogue. The songs are accompanied by
a commentary, facetious and flippant in tone, but full of
curious information.

The Keen of the South of Ireland. Pp. Iviii. +

108. (London: Printed for the Percy Society).
1844.

Subject : — " As illustrative of Irish political and domestic
history, manners, music, and superstitions." A select
anthology of laments and elegies translated from the
original Irish into English verse by the editor and J. J.
Callanan. The latter's versions are good, the former's of
slight merit. The editor also contributes an interesting
and valuable introduction explaining sources of poems,
giving an account of Irish funeral customs, especially the
caoine. Also elaborate notes full of curious information about
each poem. Contents : — Lament- of O'Gnive, Two poems
by Keating, on the Miseries of Ireland and The Exile's
Farewell, Keens for Maurice Fitzgerald, Felix McCarthy,
'Sullivan Beare and 13 others, some quite modern, some
more ancient.

For Croker's other collections see under History.

The Spirit of the Nation. 1st ed., 1843; 55th, 1896;
still reprinted. (Duffy).

109 poems by the writers of the Natiori — Davis, Duffy,
O'Hagan, M, J, Barry, McCarthy, William's, etc.

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Duffy (Charles Gavan). Ballad Poetry of Ireland.
1st ed., 1843 ; 40th, 1869 ; still reprinted. (Duffy).
Is.

' ' Consists neither of the old bardic songs, nor of the
popular street ballads." Good selection from best writers
of first half of nineteenth century. Introductory essay
(pp. 38). Includes no ballads from " The Spirit of the
Nation " nor from Hardiman. Subjects all Irish.

Walsh (Edward). Reliques of Ancient Jacobite
Poetry, etc., Translated by himself. Pp. 120.
(Dublin). 1844.

The songs were collected by John O'Daly. The transla-
tions are musical and poetic. They, include old favourites
like Mo Craoibhin Cno and The Dawning of the Day.

Barry (M. J.). The Songs of Ireland. Pp. 252.
12mo. (Duffy). 1845. Still reprinted. Is.

Davis's Essay on Irish Songs is printed as an Introduction.
This is a companion volume to Duffy's. All the songs are
by writers of the first half of the 19th century. They are
selected from various published collections. Second edition
much improved, freed from objectionable matter.

McCarthy (Denis Florence). The Book of Irish
Ballads. (Duffy). 1846. 12mo. Pp. 256.
Still reprinted in revised form. Is.
A companion volume to Duffy's " Ballad Poetry " and sup-
plementary to it. Was revised and recast by the editor in
1869. Excludes everything not strictly a Ballad in form
or sentiment. All the poems are Irish in subject and
sentiment. They are not arranged in any special order.
There is an interesting introduction on Ballad Poetry in
general. Many of the poems are preceded by short intro-
ductory notes.

Montgomery (H .R.) Specimens of the Early Native
Poetry of Ireland, Translated by Various Writers.
(Hodges & Figgis). 1846. 1892. Pp. 311.
3s. 6d. Introduction and commentary by the
editor. Still in print.

The writers are, chiefly, Miss Brooke, Ferguson and Man-
gan, with half a dozen others. The poems are arranged
chronologically from B.C. 500 to 1740, or so.

POETRY. 63

Walsh (Edward). Irish Popular Songs, Translated
by himself . Pp. 17B. (Dublin). 1847. 2nd
ed.. (Gill). 1883. Still in print. (Gill). Is.
Introductory remarks by Walsh on Irish (Gaelic) Popular
Poetry and original letters. Irish and English printed on
opposite pages. The translations show considerable poetic
power, and have been much admired. The author knew
Irish well.

Ellis (Hercules). Songs of Ireland. Pp. 288.
12mo. (Duffy). 1849.

Defines a song as a minor poem which does not exceed in
length 4 stanzas or 40 lines. Songlet — a minor poem, con-
taining not more than 100 syllables. Eomance — a minor
narrative poem longer than the song. Ballad — a minor
poem^, longer than the song and not narrative. Last two
classes excluded from this volume, which contains over
300 songs from 50 Irish poets.

Romances and Ballads of Ireland. (Dublin).

1850.

See the preceding item for Mr. Ellis's definition of these
two classes of poems.

Mangan (James Clarence). Poets and Poetry of Mun-
ster. Pp. 355. (Duffy) 3s. 6d. Four or five
editions. [1st, 1850].

Irish songs by poets of the last century, with poetical
translations and the original music. Sketch of Mangan
by Rev. C. P. Meehan, and Fragment of an Unfinished
Autobiography by Mangan. Biographical account of each
of the poets. Irish text given in each case. Mangan seems
not to have known Irish. He was supplied with literal
translations by John O'Daly and others.

Drummond (Rev. W. Hamilton). Ancient Irish
Minstrelsy, Translated by himself. Pp. 292.
(Dublin: Hodges). 1852.

Preface deals with MacPherson, the Fenian cycle, and
preceding collections of translated Gaelic. Gaelic originals
not given, nor are their sources and authors indicated.
The poems are narratives of the Ossianic or Finn cycle.
Each is preceded by a summary of the tale. Full explana-
tory notes. The verse is a good deal varied.

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Hayes (Edward). The Ballads of Ireland. 1st ed.,
1855. (London). 12nio. 2 vols. Present
edition (5th or 6th). 2 vols. 8vo. Over 400
closely printed pages each. Notes, Historical
and Biographical. 12 Hlustrations. Price, Bs,

70 authors vepresented ; many anonymous poems; by no
means all the poems are on Irish subjects. Names lilio
Francis Brown, Col. Blacker, J. L. Forrest, John Frazpr
(11 poems), W. Kennedy, Hon. G. S. Smythe, B. Simmons
15 poems), John Sterling, G. H. Supple, etc., are repre-
sented. Contains few poems written after 1850.

Lover (Samuel). Lyrics of Ireland. Pp. 409.
(Ward Lock). 111. by Phiz, Dalziel, etc. 1st ed..
1858; reprinted 1884,'etc.

Poems by Sheridan, Banim, Griffin, Davis, Carleton, Gold-
smith, Waller, Lever, Ogle, Lover, Swift, etc., and some
translations from the Irish. Divided by Subject : — Con-
vivial and comic (some decidedly stage-Irish), Moral,
Sentimental, 'etc., with a running commentary by Lover
throughout.

Sigebson (George). Poets and Poetry of Munster,
translated by himself. Second Series (the 1st
being Mangan's q.v.). (Dublin). 1860.

Beautiful translations, poetic in themselves, and close
imitations of the originals.

CoRRY (T. C. S.), M.D. Ireland: its Scenery, Music,
and Antiquities. 40 pp., 30. (Hodges & Smith).
1868.

The first 17 pages are taken up by a very brief account
of the chief show-places in Ireland. The rest consists of
95 songs by all sorts of writers, many of them not included
in other collections. No music in the book.

Vartan (Ralph). 1, Popular Poetry of Ireland.
(Dublin). 2. The Harp of Erin. (Dublin).
1869.

fl) Editions 1865,^ 1873, etc. Pp. 250. 12mo. Poems by
Allingham, Brennan, De Vere, Griffin, Irwin, E. D. Joyce
(10), Kickham, Sigerson (13), Varian (10). The other 40
poets are mostly represented by single pieces,

POETRY. 65

Longfellow (Henry Wacte^yorth). Poems of Places
(31 vols.). Ireland (separate vol.). (Boston).
1876-81.

An anthology of poems by various authors celebrating the
beauties or historic and legendary associations of places in
Ireland.

Lyra Hibernioa Sacra. Compiled and Edited bv tlio
Pev. W. MacIwaine, D.D. Pp. 370. 187.^.'
An anthology of religious verse written by Irishmen. In
three divisions : — Sacred Poems, Hymns, Sacred Lyrics.
Contains English translations (original Latin in Appendix)
of two hymns of St. Patrick, three by St. Columba, one
by Sedulius, one by O'Carolan. Rest modern. 230 poems
given; nearly 80 authors represented. There seems to be
only one translation from the Irish .

Graves (A. P.). Irish Songs of Wit and Humour.
Pp. 315. (Chatto & WindusV 2s. 6d. 1st ed.,
1884. (Mayfair Library).

Divided — Love Songs, Drink Songs, Songs of Feasting and
Fighting, Songs of Sport and Occupation, Songs of Philo
sophy, Descriptive Songs, Political and Satirical by Lover,
Moore, Allingham, Graves, Waller, Ijysaght, etc., etc. An
excellent selection.

O'SuLLivAN (Denis). Popular Songs and Ballads of
the Emerald Isle. (N.Y.). 1880.
Of little value.

Williams (Alfred M.). The Poets and Poetry of Ire-
land, with Historical and Critical Essays and
Notes. Pp. 444. (Boston: Osgood). 1881.
Distinctively national Irish poetry, presented in ordered
series from the earliest times to date of publication. Poetry
of Swift, Goldsmith, etc., who wrote exclusively for Eng-
lish readers is entirely omitted. Divisions : — The Bards,
81 pp. (all translations from Irish by well-known writers).
The Hedge Poets (ditto). Street Ballads (many never before
printed in book), Convivial and humorous. Then Moore
(8 lyrics), Callanan, Banim, the Nation poets, Mangan,
Allingham, De Vera, Irwin, Ferguson, D. F. McCarthy,
Graves. Only the last of these is now living. Each main
division is introduced by an essay, thus — 22 pp. on the
Bards, 9 on the Hedge Poets, etc. The selection is dis.
criminating and judicious,

F

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The Emerald Wreath. A Collection of Irish National
Songs and Ballads. Pp. 23. (London: Printed
and published at the Hibernian Press). 2d.
paper. C. 1883.

Contains no less than 84 ballads. A good selection of the
best known, with a few less familiar (but of good quality)
by Balfe, B'leKowen, Eliza Cook, O'Leary, Falconer, and
others.

P.eraR from the Cork Poets. (Cork : J. Barter). 1883.
Pp. 510.

Includes the complete works of Callanan, Condon, Daniel
Casey, Fitzgerald, and Cody, with elaborate introductions
and notes.

Sullivan (T. D.). Emerald Gems. 1885.

Collins (Charles McCarthy). Celtic Irish Songs and
Songwriters. Pp.334. (Dublin : Cornish). 1885.
Ranges between 1600 and 1870. Confined to authors of
undoubted Celtic descent. No living author included.
Introductory essay (pp. 1-27) on Irish bards and song-
writers. Biographical and critical accounts of poets
(pp. 27-109), Keating, MacWard, O'Dugan, Carolan,
O'Neachtain, Concancn, O'Hara, Magrath, etc., etc., as
well as the usual Anglo-Irish poets. Divided by
subjects : — Drinking, Patriotic, Love, Songs of the Affections.
Some of the poems are taken from previous collections,
some gleaned from publications very difficult of access.

Ballad Poetry of Ireland. (Ford's National Librarv.
N.Y.). 1886.

Sparling (H. Hallidav). Irish Minstrelsv. (Walter
Scott). 1887. Enlarged 1888. and since re-
issued in various forms at various prices. Pp.
493. (8vo).

' ' Aims (1) to furnish to all readers a fairly adequate
opportunity of judging Irish character, (2) to provide Irish
readers with a book that in its scope, completeness and
accuracy, may bo found worthy to take rank with Duffy's
" Ballad Poetry " and " The Spirit of the Nation." " Every
song is on an Irish theme and clearly Celtic in thought
and character." As far as possible the songs chosen are
popular. Interesting introduction and bibliography.

POETRY. 67

Connolly (Daniel). Household Library of Ireland's
Poets. (N.Y.) 1887. A huge quarto, hand-
somely bound. 774 pp.

" Pull and choice selections from Irish-American poets,"
some of whom, the editor admits, arc " but remotely
Irisli." Contains biographical notes amounting to a com-
prehensive dictionary of authors. " All available means
to ' discover good fugitive pieces have been employed.
Divided according to subjects. The Affections, Home and
Childhood, Nature and Places, Patriotism, Labor, Heroism,
Moral and Religious, Loss and Sorrow, etc. 12 full-page
portraits.

New Universal Irish Sonebook. (N.Y. : P. J

Kenedy). 1887.

&•-

AIadden (Dr. R. R.). — Literary Remains of the United
Irishmen. Pp.360. Ist'ed., 1888; still reprinted.
(Duffy). Is.

Of slight literary value; but of great historical interest,
f'ollected from old periodicals, The Press, The Northern
Star, The Anii-Vnionist, etc. Licludes poems by Drennan,
Russell, Orr, Robei't Emmet, James Hope, etc., etc. Con-
tains essay on authorship of " The Exile of Erin,"

RoLLESTON (T. W.), od. Poems and Ballads of Young
Ireland. 1888.

Collection of poems, previously re-published, by Yeats, K.
Tynan, Todhunter, RoUeston, Hyde, Fagan, Rose Kavanagh,
etc. Dedicated in verse bv editor to John O'ljcary. (M.
H. Gill, Dublin). 18S8. ']b. and 6d.

Strttch (A. R.). Lavs and Lvrics of the Pan Celtic
Society. Pp. 77.' (Dublin). 1889.

Youthful verso by writers who have since made theii- name
in literature, e"g.. A. P. Graves, Douglas Hyde, Dora
Sigerson, P. J. McCall. Also G. C. Pelly, Rose Kavanagh,
Ellen O'Leary, Theresa C. Boylan and others. The Society
was " non-political and non-sectarian."

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O'Reilly (John Boyle). Poetry and Song of Ireland.
(N.Y.) 2nd ed., 1889.

" A Standard Enoyoloptedia of Erin's Poetry and a
biographical portrait gallery of her poets." Pp. oxxi.+1028.
A huge tome nearly 3 inches thick. Bather poor paper
and print. Long introduction on Irish poetry with choice
bits. 100 engravings. To the original collection of the
editor the publishers have added, in the second edition,
over 200 pages of poems.

Tynan (Katharine). Love Songs of Ireland. Pp. 118.
Unwin, Cameo Series). 12ino., half-bound, paper
boards. 3s. 6d. 1832, etc.

The name of the editor assures us that all herein is
exquisite in sentiment and in literary quality, and this is
the case. Ineludes Mangan, Ferguson, Walsh, de Vere,
AUingham (not Moore), many minor poets and many still
living. ' ' My desire was to make a book of ' Love-songs
of a new flavour and literary in a fresh way." Hence she
rejects verse that shows too much the English influence.

HiNKSON (H. A.) ed — . Dublin Verses by Living Mem-
bers of Trinity College, Dublin. Pp. 141. Sq. 8vo.
(Elkin Mathews). 5s. 1894.

The editor has chosen poems " which show an Irish rather
than an English influence " (Preface). Hence there is
little of the academical jeu d'esprit in this volume. It
borrows little from the pages of Kotiabos. Some of the
best modern Irish poets are represented. Hyde, Graves,
Sir S. de Vere, Standish O 'Grady, Lecky, Dowden, Count
Plunkett, RoUeston, Todhunter, Tyrrell, A de Vere, etc.

Yeats (W. B.). A Book of Irish Verse. Pp. 257.
(Methuen). 3s. 6d. 1895, 1900, etc.

A very interesting critical introduction by editor. Includes
few translations from Irish, none of editor's poems. Very
choice in literary quality, it is avowedly a selection of the
editor's special favourites. Includes such names as Gold-
smith, Darley, Doheny, Emily Bronte, Oscar Wilde,
Rolleston, Charles Weekes, Lionel Johnson. A pleasant
book to handle.

POETRY. 69

Shaep (Eliza and William). LyraOeltica: an Antho-
logy of Representative Celtic Poetry, edited by
Eliza Sharp, with Introd. and Notes by William
Sharp. Pp. li. + 422. (Edinb.: Geddes). 6s.
Celtic cover-design. 1896.

An anthology intended " not for the speoiaUst but for the
lover of poetry," of representatives of Celtic poetry from the
Ancient-Irish, Alban-Gaelio, Breton and Cymric Poets to
the youngest Anglo-Celtic Poets of to-day. Aims to give
" not the finest or most unquestionably authentic examples
of early Celtic poetiy, but the most characteristic." Mr.
Sharp regards W. B. Yeats as pre-eminently representative
of the Celtic genius of to-day. Geo. Meredith occupies
pp. 283-91. Ancient Irish and Scottish, pp. 1-41. Modern
Irish poets, 87-184. Introduction deals with modern
Celtic renascence. Notes, pp. 375-422, mainly biographical.
N.B. — Unfortunately the work is somewhat marred by
misprints.

MacDermott (Martin). Songs and Ballads of Young
Ireland. Pp. xxxi. + 386. (Downey). 2s. 1896.
Long and interesting historical introduction. At end
biographical notes and portraits. Of the 160 poems in this
collection, one-third belong to the Spirit of the Nation
(supra.), another third belongs to Dufiy's, MacCarthy's,
and Barry's collections, the remainder are now first puh-
lished by the editor. All are from the Nation*

Paul (W. J.). Modem Irish Poets. 2 vols. Pp. 200
+ 198. (Belast: MuUan). 2s. 6d. net ea«h.
1894-97.

"It is my opinion that at no period in the history of
Ireland have we had so great poets ... as at the
present day " (Preface). Very full, chatty, and well-
informed accounts of seventy contemporary or recent
writers of verse, together with specimens of their writings.
This is the only available source of information in the
case of the great majority of the writers. Notices of some
notable poets, such as Katharine Tynan and Dora Sigerson,
. are crowded in at the end, no specimens of their work
being given, owing to want of space.

*This book is intended to supersede " The New Spirit of the
Nation."

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SiGERSON (George). Bards of the Gael and Gall.
Pp. 432. (Unwiii and Gill). 2nd ed., revised
and enlarged. 1907.

" Au Anthology of translated Gaelic poetry, giving in
historical series specimens of verse, from the earliest known
to that of recent times, essaying to present them in the
exact spirit, form and structure of the originals." Very
interesting Preface (13 pages). Introduction (pp. 21-107) on
the origins, extent, influence and value of Gaelic literature,
and with a critical examination of the metre and structure
of the poems included in the voltime. Appendix (pp. 377-
432) containing notes on the poems. The author has at
his command a great M-calth of erudition. Altogether the
work is unique and invaluable.

Brooke (Stopford A.) and T. W. Rolleston. A Trea-
sury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue. Pp.
xxxiv. + 578. (Smith Elder). 7s. 6d. 1900
and 1905.

The most critical and scholarly selection yet published.
Admirable survey of Irish poetry by Stopford Brooke in
Introduction. Introductory critical notices of each poet
by the editors and by Lionel Johnson, W. B. Yeats, G.
A. Greene, D. J. O'Donoghue, Geo. Sigerson, Douglas
Hyde, Prof. G. F. Savage-Armstrong, A. P. Graves, W.
McN. Dixon and A.E. The selection is very comprehen-
sive and of the highest literary value. Yet there arc some
omissions, the poetry of Ethna Carbery, for instance,
finding no place.

Welsh (Cha-rles). A Golden Treasury of Irish Songs
and Lyrics. (New- York). 1906.

Two beautiful volumes. Selection comprehensive and dis-
criminating : by a very competent litterateur.

Russell (George, " A. E.")- New Songs. (Maunsel).
[1st ed., 1908]. 3rd ed.

A selection from poems by some young Irish writers of
the new movement, viz., Padraic Golum, Alice MiUigau,
Eva Gore-Booth, Seumas O'Sullivan, Susan Mitchell, Ella
Young, Geo. Eoberts, and Thomas Keohler.

tOETBY. ?1

Kelly (R. J.). Popular and patriotic Poetry. Issued
by the C.T.S. of I. in 6 penny parts, also bound
in cloth at Is.

A little work of the greatest impbrtance for the spreading
of national ideas. It has already had a very wide sale.

Meyeb (Kuno). Ancient Irish Poetry. Pp. xvi. + 1 14.
(Constable). 3s. 6d. 1911.

A number of literal prose translations of Old Irish poems
of the 6th to . the 10th centuries. Divisions : — Nature
Poetry, Myth and Saga, Religious, Love Poetry, Bardic,
eta. Acknowledged by the most competent reviewers to
be full of delicate and true poetic spirit, love for nature,
and (in many cases) human sympathy. A good selection.
Preceded by a short account of old Irish literature.

Brown (Mary J.). Irish Historical Ballad Poetry.
About 240 pp. (The Educational Co. of Ireland).
1912.

The poems which are selected from the writings of Irish
poets from Moore to the present day, are arranged in
chronological order and divided into five periods. Each
poem (except in a few eases where this is unnecessary)
is preceded by an introductory note, short but accurate
and interesting. Difficult words occurring in the text are
explained. A good selection both from the literary and
the historical point of view.

HvDE (Douglas). The Love Songs of Connaught. 1st
ed. (Unwin and Gill). 1895.

The originals are given with the translation opposite. The
latter is, for the most part, in verse. Sometimes literal
translations are given as well. Running commentary in
Irish and English. At end notes grammatical and other.

HvDE (Douglas). The Religious Songs of Connaught.
2 vols. Pp. xvii. + 404 and 420. (Unwin).
10s. 6d. net. 1908.

Poems, stories (prose), prayers, satires, rauns, charms,
blessings, curses, with running commentary. Bilingual
throughout. No order or arrangement. " I have put down
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got them from the m.ouths of shanachies and old people "
(Preface). The verse is translated into verBe, the prose
into prose. N.B. — In a work of this kind justice cannot
be done to these two remarkable works.

CooivE (John), edited. The Dublin Book of Irish
Verse. V-p. 804. (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis; and
Oxford: Henry Frowde). 1909.

Is modelled on the " Oxford Book of English Verse " and
suflers in the comparison. Contains 540 poems, arranged
chronologically up to recent times. Then the arrangement
is alphabetical. No biographical or critical matter. First
poem 1766 (though the title-page says 1728). The most
recent writers are included (e.g., Padraic Colum, Charles
-Weekes, James Stephens). Indeed nearly half the book
is by living writers. Editor claims to have made " a
careful and independent study of Irish writers," and aims
to make this selection fully representative. This aim may
fairly be admitted to have been carried out though this
involves the inclusion of much indifferent poetry. Notes
pp. 759-788. Index of authors and of first lines. There is
no partisan bias of any kind visible in the selection.

Sullivan (T. D.), edited. Irish National Poems by
Irish Priests. Pp. 88. (Gill). 1911.

Contains such names as : — Dr. O'Doherty, Kehoe, Cahill,
Dean Kelly, J. J. Murphy, Abram J. Byan, P. S. Dineeu,
MacHale, P. A. Murray, J. D. Walsh, S.J., M. BusseU,
S.J., J. B. DoUard, Father Prout, Canon O'Hanlon.
Note.— " The Priests of '98," by Revd. Canon Furlong,
and " The' Celtic Tongue," by Revd. M. MuUin.

Eyes of Youth : A Book of Verse. Pp. 94. (Herbert
and Daniel). 3s. Gd. 1911.
By Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, and others.

SOME COLLECTIONS OF ORANGE POETRY.

Johnston (William). TheBoyne Book of Poetry and
Song. Pp.92. (Downpatrick :" Downshire Pro-
testant " Office). 1859.

Dedicated " To the Orangemen of Ireland, loyal to God
and the Protestaot cause." Begins by " Twenty reasons

POETRY. 73

for being an Orangeman, by Eevd. Dr. Drew." The
XVIth is " Because Jesuits are openly tolerated in Great
Britain and Ireland." The songs themselves are full of
references to popery, Jesuits, etc. They have but slight
literary merit.

Young (Robert). Poetical Works. Pp. 252. (Lon-
donderry). 1863.

Com_prising Historical, Agricultural, and Miscellaneous
Pooms and Songs. This is a selection from three pre-
viously published volumes, " The Orange Minstrel or Ulster
Melodist" (Derry), 1832; "The Ulster Harmonist," 1840
and " Poems and Songs," 1852. The author (born 1800) vi^as
known as " The Fermanagh True Blue." He was a nailer
by trade. The songs celebrate The Battles of the Boyne
and Aughrim, The Siege of Derry, The Union, and other
Orange anniversaries. Is fiercely Orange and anti-Catholic.
Contains a few poems by other writers, e.g., The Boyne
Water, The Maiden City, etc. FuUy annotated, there
being 30 closely printed pp. of notes to Bev. John Graham's
fine ballad, " The Siege of Londonderry." N.B. — " The
Ulster Harmonist contains poems by other authors besides
Young.

Songs. (Orange). The National Orange and Protes-
tant Minstrel. Being a Collection of 'Constitu-
tional and Protestant Songs, Hymns, Toasts, Sen-
timents, and Eecitations. 12mo. Boards, 2s. 6d.
(Bradford). 1853.

Songs. (Orange). A Collection of Loyal Songs, as
Sung in all Loyal Societies. 12nio. Half bound,
curious and very scarce. 5s. (Dublin). 1801.

Aecheb (Bro. William). The Marching of the Lodges
and Orange Melodies. (Dublin : Printed by -James
Forrest). 1869.

Title poem, pp. 17-44; notes, 44-74; melodies, pp. 76-246,
with notes. Preceded by a desertation («ic) on lyrical
poetry. Contains some spirited pieces.

74 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON lEELAND.

SOME POPULAR SONG BOOKS.

Messrs. M. H. Gill & Sons' Song Books.

These were formerly published by Cameron and Ferguson
of Glasgow. They arc paper covered and cheaply printed
but good value at the price. They contain no music, and
no introductions nor notes of any kind. Price 3d. : — " The
Harp of Tara S.B.," " The "Wearing of the Green S.B.,"
" Young Ireland S.B." Price 4d. : — " Emerald Isle S.B.,"
" Exile of Erin S.B." At 6d. :— " Green Flag of Ireland
S.B.," " Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, 1888." At
Is. : — " National and Historical Ballads of Ireland," pp.
370, close print. They formerly published other collec-
tions, excellent for the most part, such as " The Cruskeen
Lawn S.B.," " The Cushla Macree S.B.," and so on.

Song Books published by P. J. Kenedy & Sons, New
York. Universal Irish Songster. Pp. 604, 75
cents. (Current Catalogue).

" A complete collection of the songs and ballads of Ireland
and cyclopaedia of Irish poetry by the best authors,
including Moore, Griffin, Davis, Lever, Lover, Lady
Dufferin, and others." 50 engravings.

■ Irish National Songster. Pp. 360. 50 cents.

(Current Catalogue).

" Containing a selection of sentimental, patriotic, and
comic songs, including all of Moore's Irish Melodies."

Faugh-a-Ballagh Song Book. Pp. 180. 13 cents.

(Current Catalogue).

" Containing a fine selection of Irish national, popular, and
comic songs, amusing recitations and side-splitting anec-
dotes."

The Erin-go-Bragh Songster. Pp. 180. 13 cents.

(Current Catalogue).

" Containing a fine selection of sentimental songs,
including all of Moore's Irish Melodies."

POETEy. 75

B. — Works of Individual Poets.

The following is not a Guide to the works of Irish poets, but
a Guide to Irish poetry, taking " poetry " in the sense of verse
reaching a certain standard of literary merit and ' ' Irish ' ' in the
sense that it speaks of Ireland, deals with Irish subjects. With
volumes of indifierent verse which happen to have been written
by Irishmen we have, with an exception referred to below, no
concern here, though from several points of view it would
be interesting to have a bibliography including also such
writings.^- Nor do we include Irishmen who wrote poetry — even
true poetry on almost exclusively non-Irish themes. Thus one
wiU search in vain for such names as Goldsmith and Sheridan
in the past, and, in recent times, Arthur O'Shaughuessy, W. E.
H. Leoky, or Dr. Alexander, though a few poems of specially
Irish interest are to be found among their works.

Moreover, even from among poets of some merit, I have made
a selection on the following lines : —

(1). I have omitted those writers who in a mass of undis-
tinguished verse have written some few pieces worthy
to live. These are sufficiently represented in the
anthologies.
(2). However, I have thought it best to include the pub-
lished volumes of all living writers of verse dealing
mainly with Irish subjects.
(3). But when a volume or volumes containing their col-
lected works has appeared I have not thought it useful
in every case to give the name of each separate volume
that preceded such a collected edition.

It will be evident from some of the names included that the
selection has not been unduly exclusive. For the notes I have
freely drawn upon the admirable essays in Brooke and BoUeston's
" Treasury of Irish Poetry," which may be regarded as the
standard critical anthology. Many other notes (signed T.W.B.)
were supplied by Mr. T. W. Rolleston, to whom 1 cannot
sufficiently express my obligations. For the arrangement, the
editor is alone responsible. Its aim is to group the poets (when-
ever possible) according to the main subject of their poetry,
while paying as much attention as may be consistent with this
first object to the claims of historical sequence. It is but an
experiment, and the editor is conscious of its many drawbacks,
but he trusts it may be found useful.

J' This laborious task Mr. D. J. O'Donoghue (now Librarian of
the Library of University College, Dublin), carried out in the
first edition of his Poets of Ireland, and is carrying out in a still
more exhaustive way in the second. A notice of these will be
found on p. 41.

76 GUIDE rro books on Ireland.

POETS OF THE NATIONAL STRUGGLE.

(a) Thomas Moore.

Innumerable editions of his poems at all prices and in all
styles have appeared. His poems fall chiefly under the
following heads : — Juvenile poems (love) ; Epistles, Odes,
etc. (skits, political satires, vers d'ocoasion, etc.); " Irish
jMclodies "; " Sacred Songs "; "Lalla Rookh, an Oriental
Poem"; "The Twopenny Post Bag" (short humorous
political sguibs); "Trifles" (jeux d'esprifi); "Corruption
and Intolerance " (two long and elaborate satires). They
occupy some 500 closely printed 8vo. pages. The latest
and one of the best editions of his works is referred to
below. For editions of the Melodies with music see under
" Irish Music."

— — Poetical works. Oxford Poets Series. (Frowde,
Oxford University Press). 3s. 6d. 1910. Ed.
by A. D. Godley. Reproduces text and arrange-
ment of ed. of 1841 printed under Moore's super-
vision.

Extent and variety of Moore's poetic work — ^his poems form
a volume of 596 closely printed 8vo pages. Their variety
of theme may be judged partly from the list of subjects
given above, partly from the following from an appreciation
of the poet by Mr. Stopford Brooke (in B. & R.). Speaking
of the Melodies alone, he says : — " These songs have variety;
they touch both tragedy and comedy. They drink, they
dance and sing; they march to battle, they mourn over
the dead; they follow the patriot to the scaffold and to
exile; they sing the scenery, the legends, the sorrows, and
the mirth of Ireland." It must be remembered, too, that
though his sphere was not the pjatform or the Parliament
House, Moore was all his life a consistent and even a
courageous patriot. The Melodies are full of the wrongs of
Ireland; the satires were written against the Governments
that misgoverned her, and even in his " Lalla Rookh " he
was not unmindful of her, for " The Fireworshippers " is a
covert allegory in which an Irishman may read the story
of his country's sufferings and struggles.

N.B. — An account of various editions of Moore's Melodies
will be found in the Music Section, on page 133;

POBTEY. 77

(b) The Poets of " The Nation."

" They mingled," says W. B. Yeats, " a little learned from
the Gaelic ballad writers with a great deal learned from Scott,
Maoaulay and Campbell."

Davis (Thomas). Poems collected and edited with
excellent introduction by T. Wallis. (Duffy).
1846. Frequently reprinted.

Written from 1842-5 (the last three years of his life) for
the Nation. His poems are for the most part stirring
lyrics full of fire and patriotism, many of them inspired
by the political ideas and emotions of the time. Among
the best are " Lament for Owen Boe," " Fontenoy."
" Nationality," " The West's Asleep," " My Land." He
is very generally considered as the national poet par excel-
lence. Messrs. Gill in 1907 published a cheap reprint at
6d. and Is., pp. 96, close print.

Williams (Richard Dalton). Complete Poetical
Works collected and edited by P. A. Sillard, with
an excellent Introduction. (Duffy). Is. Pp.
334. 1894. Several editions since.

Died 1862. With much- grace, pathos and energy, he had
the " fatal facility " of many Irish verse writers. Of his
poems many are inspired by various events in Irish history,
others by political events. There are a number of excellent
humorous poems. The remainder of the volume is made
up of love-songs an:l miscellaneous poems, some of them
religious.

Kelly (Mary; "Eva"; Mrs. Kevin Izod O'Doherty).
Poems. Pp. 144. (Gill). 2s. [1st ed., c. 1870].
New ed., 1909.

Introduction by Seumas MacMamis and biographical notice
by Justin McCarthy. Contains 80 selected pieces, some
patriotic, most of them about Ireland — " Men in Jail for
Ireland,'' " Tipperary," " Our True Men," " To Erin," a
few dealing with France, and a few with Australia, trans-
lations from the Irish, and from the French of Victor
Hugo and Beranger.

78 aUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Keegan (John). Legends and Poems. Pp. 552.
(Sealy Bryers). 3s. 6d. 1907.

" His poems are usually more distinguished for 'the sim-
plicity and pathetic grace of the ' Dark Girl ' than for the
rough energy which marks his ' Harvest Hymn to the
Virgin.' " The poems occupy pp. 493-.'352 of this volume,
for full account of which see " Readers' Guide to Irish
Fiction," 1st edition, p. 86.

?ircCrEE (T. Darcy). Collected Poems. Edited with
Notes and Bios;raphv bv Mrs. Sadlier. (New
York: Sadleir.j 1870.

Of all the rhetorical qualities of poetry — ^rhythm and phrase
and picturesque diction — McGee possessed a greater measure
than any other of the Kaiinn poets. But he wrote with a
careless energy which, if it always produced something
remarkable, vet rarely left it strong and finished in every
part. Died,' 1868 (B. & R.). Mr. D. J. O'Donoghue,
Librarian of the National University, intends to bring out
shortly a new edition of McGee's poems including matter
not hitherto published and omitting much of the inferior
work contained in the above collection

l\'roCARTHY (Denis Florence). l«t collected ed. of his
work, " Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics," 1850.
Poems, edited with biographical preface bv John
McCarthy (the poet's son). (Gill). 1882. '

This volume includes most of his poems published in
previous volumes, but omits his humorous pieces and many
of his national pieces. The poems it contains include
Ballads and Lvrics, " Ferdiah," a long episode translated
from the Tdin,'" The Voyage of St. Brendan " (21 pp.), and
other narrative poems. National poems, " Underglimpses,"
two Centenary Odes (O'Connell and Moore), and miscel-
laneous poems. He also published several volumes of
translations from Calderon. " His imagination dwelt on
the sweet and gracious aspects of life and nature, and
these he rendered in verse marked by sincere feeling, wide
culture, and careful, though unpretentious, art." Died, 1882.

Wtlde (Lady "Speranza"). The Poetical Works of.
(Gill). '2s. [1st published 1864]. New ed., 1907.

Nearly a third of this volume is taken up by her national
and patriotic poems; the rest is divided between personal

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or reflective poems and " Wanderings througli European
Li-fceratuic." Her Irish poems are full of passionate
rhetoric and patriotism. Some of the best are — " To Ire-
land," " The Brothers " ('98), " The Famine Year" (and
other poems on the Famine), " Signs of tlie Times," "To
a Despondent Nationalist." N.B. — This edition is en-
tirely without annotations, introduction, or preface. It
was originally brought out by Cameron and Ferguson.

Other ' ' Nation ' ' poets were John O 'Hagan, Chakles Gavan
Duffy, Ellen Downing (" Mary " of the Nation), and M. J.
BAnBY. These are well represented in the Anthologies.

(c) Fenian Poets.

O'Leary (Ellen). Lays of Country, Home, and
Friends. (Sealy Bryers). Is. Introductory
Notice by T. W. EoUeston. 1891.

A Fenian poetess (1831-1889). " Simple field-flowers which
blossomed above the subterranean workings of a grim con-
spiracy." Her " To God and Ireland True " is very well,
known. This edition contains portrait and memoir, and
an introduction by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy. She died, 1889.

Casey (John Kefigan " Leo "). The Eising of the
Moon, and other National Songs and Poems.
(Gill). Is. 1907.

A young Fenian poet (he died, aged 23, in 1870) whose
poems are characterised by " fire and sweetness."

Shoesa (May). Love Letters of a Fenian. Pp. 63.
(Gill). 1901.

Literary and full of feeling. All, except the last, in the
same curious metre : — ' ' Show me my duty, Teach me to
be always true," rhyming a a b a b b.

_C. J. Kickham was another Fenian poet, and a good one, but
his poems have never been collected.

(d) The Modern Political Struggle.

Sullivan (T. D.). 1. Dunboy and other Poems. 1868.
2. Green Leaves. 1879. 3. Lays of the Land
League. 1887. 4. Songs and Poems: Satirical,
Political, Lj^ric, Sealy Bryers.) Is. 1888. 6.

80 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Prison Poems and Lays of TuUamore. 1888. fi.

Blanaid, and other Poems. (Eason.) Pp. 190.

1892. 7. Evergreen. (Sealy Bryers.) Is. Pp.
194. 1908.

His poems consist of racy political satires written in catch-
ing rhythms, more serious patriotic poems, historical poems,
such as " Dunboy," and, as in " Blanaid," legendary roman-
ces of Ireland (Cuehullin, Ossian, King Conor MacNessa).
Some of his ballads are wonderfully popular. No. 4, above,
deals with various phases and incidents of the National
movement from '48 to present time.

A volume of Selections was published bv the author in
1898. New edition, 1907. (Sealy, Bryers). " Pp. 210. 12mo.

Davis (Francis, the Belfastman). Poems and Songs.
Pp. xxvii. + 638. (Belfast: Greer). 1878.
Introductory essay by the Bev. Columban O'Grady, C.P.
The poems consist of " Leaves from among the people :
under ths smoke and over the dew," Pattiotio poems.
Sacred poems. Miscellaneous poems, very varied In character.

O'DoNNELL (John Francis). Poems published by the
Southwark Irish Literary Club. Pp. 256. 1891.
Patriotic, historical and political poems, full of fire and
spirit, but hastily written, and in few cases highly finished.
Also songs and ballads dealing with non-controversial Irish
subjects, such as his exquisite " Spinning Song," also
poems on Irish scenery, antiquities, history. Introduction
by Biohard Dowling. The poet died, 1873.

Reliques of Barney Maglone (i.e., R. A. Wilson), ed.
by F. J. Bigger and J. S. Crone, with Introductory
Memoir by D. J. O'Donoghue. Pp. xii. + 75.
(Belfast: bargan). ]894.

Wilson (1820-1875) was an Ennislcillen journalist, born in
Donegal. He was an eccentric and erratic genius, very
well known all over Ulster, where his writings exercised
great influence. He was a Nationalist, knew Irish, and
had true sympathy with the people. Of his prolific writings
only these few poems have been preserved in book form.
Most of his work was too hasty and topical to last. Some
of these are in dialect. All have qualities peculiar to the
writer. " To Ireland," " My own ould Irish Home," " The
Cottage of Tyrone," " A Song for '69," " B6shin binn na

POETEY. 81

ndh4n," " Donn realt nao chree," " Love of Erin,-" " On
Lough Erne," and so on.

We might mention here " Songs of the Rising Nation " (1869),
by Ellen and Arthur Foeebster, and Derrynane and other
poems (1863), by Ellen Eitzsimon, eldest daughter of Daniel
O'Connell.

(e) Histoiical.

Joyce (Robert Dwyer). Ballads of Irish Chivalry,
edited by his brother, Dr. P. W. Joyce. (Gill.)
2s. 1908.

Many of these were written about 1861. They include
legends of the Galtees, Tipperary, Limerick, and Cork —
stirring ballads of Anglo-Irish wars, carefully annotated by
Dr. Joyce. His songs are eminently singable. The reader
is referred for the airs to the editor's collections. Four
good illustrations, and handsome binding.

Lawless (Emily). With the Wild Geese. (Pitman).
4s. 6d. 1902.

Mostly poems of Ireland in 18th century (at home and
abroad) — Cremona, Fontenoy, etc., but there are some on
other themes, meditative in character. There is the breath
of the Atlantic about many of her poems. Like Le Fanu,
Miss Lawless may be described as " a rebel when she
writes verse," but only then.

O'Neill (William), " Slieve Margy." Lays of Leix.
Pp. 100. 16mo. (Sealy Bryers). 1903.
Dedicated to Oarlow Branch of Gaelic League. National
poems, historical and patriotic, somewhat in the manner
of the Nation poets. Versification at times faulty,
and tone sometimes near to prose, but written with much
spirit and verve.

De Vere (Aubrey T.). Inisfail, a Lyrical Chronicle
of Ireland, and other Poems. (Burns & Gates.)
6s. 1st ed., 1861. i

" Its aim is to embody the essence of a nation's history "
(the author). Each epoch is illustrated by a representative
poem or event. At one time a victory is celebrated by a
swinging ballad, at another a dirge laments a defeat. The
metre is varied to suit the mood or the emotion called
forth by the event.

o

82 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

I have not classed the following poets in any group. Some
are sui genesis, the work of others so varied as not to admit of
ready classification.

Griffin (Gerald). Poetical and Dramatic Works.
Pp. 393. (Duffy). 2s. [1857]. Several editions
since. New ed., 1907.

" In poetry, his longer pieces fail in freshness, vigour and
local colour; they are conventional compositions. . . .
In his lyrics, however, . . . he is at his best, im-
passioned at times (though never passionate), tender,
delicate, yet strong, with a certain dramatic grasp of his
subject." — Dr. Sigerson.

Mangan (James Clarence). The Poems of. Ed. by
D. J. O'Donoghue. (Gill and O'Donoghue).
3s. 6d. net. With the famous Introduction by
John Mitchel. 1st ed., 1869. 1908.

This may be considered the final edition of Mangan 's
poems, but " Poets and Poetry of Munster," a volume of
translations edited by John O'Daly (1850) is still popular
and is in its 3rd edition. (Duffy). 3s. 6d. 1897. See Lionel
Johnson's essay in Brooke and Eolleston's " Treasury,
etc." His poetry falls under four chief heads. — 1. Trans-
lations from the Gaelic, his best work. 2. Those from the
German Anthology, 2 vols. (Duffy), 2s. 3. Poems inspired
by Oriental originals. 4. Original. His greatest poems are
" Dark Bosaleen," " O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire,"
"Lament for the Princess," "Kathleen Ni Houlahan,"
and " The Nameless One."

Poems, selected and edited by Louise Imogen

Guiney. Pp. 361. (Lane). 1897.

Contains a study of Mangan by the editor (112 pp.) and
20 pp. of notes on the poems. Nicely printed and bound.

Le Fanu (Sheridan). Ed. by A. P. Graves. Poems.
(London: Downey.) 1896.

" Became a rebel whenever he wrote verse." " His
Legend of the Glaive shows the weird and romantic touch
which he had at command." His " Shemus O'Brien " is
very well known. Le Fanu died in 1873.

POETB^T. 83

Irwin (Thomas Caulfield). I. Irish Poems and
Legends. (Glasgow.) Is. 1869. 2. Songs and
Romances. (Dublin). Is. 1878. 3. Pictures
and Songs. (Dublin). Is. 1880. 4. Sonnets on
the Poetry and Problem of Life. (Dublin). 1881.
5. Poems, Sketches, and Songs. (Dublin). 1889.

No representative selection of Ins poems lias yet been
published. Irwin is considered one of the best Irish poets
of the century. He was possessed of wide culture,
especially in continental literature. He had imagination
and music, and was a keen observer of men and nature.
But his besetting sin is diffuseness, and much of what he
published is a waste of words. His poems are lyrical,
reflective and imaginative, not political or rhetorical. He
died in 1892. No. 1 above consists of 1st, historical poems,
2nd, poems " reflecting the feeling^s and scenery of the
Race and Land," in all 146 pp. close print, followed by
notes.

Fahy (Francis A.) Irish Songs and Poems. 1887.
His verses are marked by much humour and grace. His
songs, of which a large number are well known favourites
in concert-rooms, have the merit of being eminently
singable, e.g., " The Ould Plaid Shawl," " Irish Molly 0,"
" The Donovans."

Johnson (Lionel). 1. Poems. (Mathews). 1895.
xi. + 116 pp. 2. Ireland, and other Poems.
(Mathews). 1897. 132 pp.

The Irish contents of 1. are " Parnell," " To Weep Irish,"
" Celtic Speech," " Ireland's Dead," " St. Columba," and
two others. Born about 1867 of a Sligo family. Educated
in Winchester and Oxford. He afterwards became a
Catholic, and thenceforward, though he lived in London,
his ideas were centred in Ireland, in the Fathers of the
Church, and the masters of literature. His learning might
\\'ithout exaggeration be described as colossal. He had a pro.
found knowledge of religious writers, while in Early English
and Elizabethan literature, in the classics, in highways and
byways of Irish lore, and with the great figures of the
Middle Ages, he was equally at home. His Irish enthusiasm
grew with the years, and he was among the first to welcome
and to work for the Oaelic League. " Mr. Tjioncl

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Johnson," says W. B. Yeats (in B. & R.) " has in his
poetry completed the trinity of the spiritual virtues by
adding Stoicism to Ecstacy and Asceticism. He has
renounced the world and built up a twilight world instead,
where all the colours are like the colours of the rainbow
that. is cast by the moon, and all the people as far from
modern tumults as the people upon fading and dropping
tapestries." The above, including the quotation, is taken,
from a sympathetic and discerning article in " I.L."i

RoLLESTON (T. W.). Sea Spray. (Maunsel). Is.
1909.

28 little poems of very varied type. Includes, " To John
O'Leary," " The Dead at Clonmaonois " (from the Irish),
" Cois na teineadh," " A Cycling Song," with a number of
translations from the Greek and German. Each is very
perfect of its kind.

De Veee (Sir Aubrey). The Lameutation of Ireland.
1823. A Song of Faith, Devout Exercises, and
Sonnets. 1842. Sonnets, ed. by his son, Aubrey
T. de Vere. 1875.

His sonnets, dealing with events in Irish history and scenes
of Irish landscape, were described by Wordsworth as " the
most perfect of our age." His " Lamentation " is full of
love for Ireland. So are his sonnets such as " Lismore,"
" The Soldiers of Sarsfield," " The Shannon," " The Rock
of Cashel." He was bom in Limerick in 1788, and was
of the Church of Ireland. His three sons became Catholics.
Besides his Irish works he published dramas, notably
■■ Mary Tudor," and miscellaneous poems.

De Vere (Aubrey T.). Poems. Selected by Lady
Margaret Domvile. Pp. xx. + 183. 12ino.
(C.T.S.). 2s. net. 1904.

Division : Early poems (4 in all) ; Religious poems (pp.
15-56); Irish poems (pp. 57-112); Sonnets; Memorial
Sonnets; Miscellaneous. Aubrey de Vere has been well
called " the most spiritual of ovu- intellectual poets." He

^Insh Literature, ed. McCarthy; see p. 1.

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w&a a disoiple of Wordsworth. The absence from hia
poetry of the sensuous and passionate element has taken
much from its popularity. It is austere, full of moral
grandeur, distinguished and often striking in language. Mr.
Macneile Dixon (in B. & R.) speaks of it as " characterised
by its singular aloofness from contemporary thought and
feeling, by its impersonality, and by its dramatic method
and character." The poet, born in 1814, became a Catholic
in 1851, and after that date a great part of his poetry is
inspired by the history, legends, and ideals of the Church,
e.g., his " Legends and Records of the Church and the
Empire " (1887), " Mediteval Records and Sonnets " (1893),
"St. Peter's Chains " (1888), " May Carols " (1857), etc.,
etc. He died in 1902.

- Legends of St. Patrick and other Poems. Pp.
xxviii. + 248. (Burns & Gates). 5s. 1st ed.,
1872.

Very interesting Preface dealing with the relations between
St. Patrick, the Irish people, and Christianity, together
with some remarks on religious poetry. Legends takeli
from ancient lives of St. Patrick and worked into poetic
form, e.g., " The Baptism of St. Patrick," " The Disbelief
of Miloho," " The Striving of St. Patrick on Mount Crua-
chan " ! " St. Patrick at Cashel " ; six on St. Patrick and
Oisin. Of these some are in lyric, rhymed metres (notably
those concerned with Oisin), others in blank verse. These
latter resemble in form Tennyson's " Idylls of the King,"
without their rich colouring, but marked by the quiet and
stately beauty of phrase and of incident which is distinc-
tive 'of his narrative poems,

ToDHUNTER (John), Laurel la, and other Poems.
(Kegan Paul). 1876. Forest Songs. (Kegan
Paul). 1881. (1) Sounds and Sweet Airs.
(Elkin Mathews). Is. 1904. (2) The Banshee
and other Poems. (Sealy Bryers). Is. 2nd ed.,
1888.

(1)_ is No. 23 of Vigo Cabinet Series. Born 1839. Still
living (1912). For many years, devoted himself to classic
and idyllic themes — legends, forest songs, old tragedies and
mysteries. In the eighties he turned to Irish themes, and
later joined the Gaelic League of London. Some of his
Irish poems are remarkable, e.g., " Aghadoe," " The Shan

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Van Vocht " of '87, " Longing," " The Bansliee," etc.
The poet ia notable for the extreme and loving minuteness
of his pictures of nature, for his power of expressing in verse
the emotions of music (of. poems on Mendelssohn,
Beethoven and Rossini), and for his deep thoughtfulness
and culture. In some of his principal Irish poems he has
discarded rhyme. (B. & B.)

POETS OF THE GAELIC TRADITION.
{Legendary and Heroic).
P'erguson (Sir Samuel). 1. Poems (Sealy, Biyers).
7.S. 6d. F'cap. 4to. 1880.

Contains " Conarv," an epic poem, characterised in tho
words of de Vcro by " simplicity, breadth of effect, and a
careless strength of movement," and by Whitley Stokes as
"the noblest poem ever written by an Irishman";
" Deirdre," which A. P. Graves considered Ferguson's
chief triumph; and the " Naming of CuohuUin."

2. " Lays of the Western Gael." 1st ed., 1864.

(Sealy, Bryers). 2s.

Contains " The Tain Quest," " The Healing of Couall Cear-
nach," " The Welshmen of Tirawley," etc., also mis-
cellaneous Ballads and Poems and a largo number of
translations from the Irish. " The Welshmen of Tirawley"
has been well called a magnificently savage lay, and was
greatly admired by Swinburne.

3. " Congal." 1st ed., 1872. (Sealy, Brvers).

2s.

A groat epic poem in 5 books, dealing with the conflict
between Paganism and Christianity in the 6th century.

4. " Lavs of the Red Branch." (Sealy, Bryers).

2s.

A collection from difierent volumes of all the poems dealing
with the Conorian cycle of Irish heroic literature, with
historical introduction.

In Ferguson's writings the great work of restoring to
Ireland the spiritual treasure it had lost in parting with
the Gaelic tongue was decisively begun, " ' Congal ' and his
shorter Irish heroic poems combine in a striking manner
the vague, undefinedj shadowy grandeur j the supernatural

POETRY. 87

glamour of northern romance, with the self-restraint, dis-
tinct symmetrical outline, ordered proportion and organic
construction of the Greek classics." — Eoden Noel. His
defects are a want of finish and verbal felicity, and a
frequent roughness of sound and metre. Aubrey de Vere
says of Ferguson's poetry : — " Its qualities are those charac-
teristic of the noble, not the ignoble, poetry, viz., passion,
imagination, vigor, an epic largeness of conception, wide
human sympathies, vivid and truthful description — while
with them it unites none of the vulgar stimulants for
exhausted or morbid poetic appetite, whether the epicurean
seasoning, the sceptical, or the revolutionary." W. B.
Yeats has called him " the greatest poet Ireland has
produced."

De Vere (Aubrey T.). The Foray of Queen Mae\-e.
(Kegan, Paul.) 1882.

Three long poems. 1. The Sons of Usnach, told in the same
rhymed verse as Dr. E. D. Joyce used in Blanid. 2. The
Foray of Queen Maeve, being the TAin Bo Cuailgne told in
the blank verse of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which it
somewhat resembles in style. 3. The Children of Lir. No.
2 is told in prose in Standish 'Grady's " Gates of the
North." /

ToDHUNTEE (Johu). Three Irish Bardic Tales. Pp.
160. (Dent.) 1896.

" Sons of Lir," " Sons of Usna," " Sons of Turann." The
first two are related in unrhymed iambic hexameter (Alex-
andrine) with occasional lyrical passages; the third in
unrhymed lyric measures. The first and third are re-
printed from a former volume. " I have freely handled
my materials — not following precisely any one of the many
versions of each legend, but adopting whatever best suited
my purpose in each " (Preface). The poems are exquisite
in choice of expression and in literary finish.

Larminie (William). Glanlua, and other Poems.
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. 1889.

Fand, and other Poems. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

(Hodges & Figgis). 1892.

Ancient Gaelic hero-tales for the most part, told in
stately verse in which Gaelic assonance is substituted for
rhyme. The metres are unusual in poems of the kind, and
the myths are treated in a way peculiar to the author.

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He 13 more concerned with the substance of the thought,
which is philosophical and mystical (without being vague)
than with the expression, which is not always beautiful.

Joyce (R. D.). Blanid. Pp. 247. (Boston: Roberts
Bros.). 1879.

A metrical romance of the CuchuUain cycle. For the most
part it is in stanzas of eight lines rhyming a, b, a, b, a, b,
c, c, but the metre is a good deal varied, and here and
there are very beautiful songs.

Deirdre. Pp. 262. (Gill). 1877.

The fate of the Sons of Usnach, with many side episodes
told in heroic rhyming verse (that of Pope's translation of
Homer). Language full of colour and variety. His most
successful poem.

SiiEEHAN (Canon). Cithara Mea. Pp.246. (Boston:
Marlin, Callanan & Co.). 1900.
Includes three poems Irish in subject, viz., " Sentam the
Culdee " (pp. 111-127), which belongs to the literature of
vision; " Gachla — the Druidess " (pp. 131-154), a phase of
the conflict between Christianity and Paganism in early
Ireland; " A Prophecy " (of the future of Ireland), a short
lyric. The two former are in blank verse. They are noble
in diction and abound in finely imaginative passages.

GwYNN (Stephen). A Lay of Ossian and Patrick, with
other Irish Verses. 12mo., sewed. Is. net.
(Hodges & Figgis) 1903.

Translations and adaptations from the Irish, with a few
poems on modern themes. The Lay contains passages of
much power. Notable for their intense love for Ireland,
especially " A Song of Defeat."

Saegant (Alice). The Death of Oscar: a Chronicle of
the Fianna in xii. Cantos. 2 Vols. (Hodges &
Figgis). 1902.

The whole Fenian cycle with some of the CuchuUain cycle
is wrought into a single epic. Thus it includes The Pursuit
of Diarmid and Grania, The Coming of St. Patrick, The
Campaign of Cuthullin (sio) against Cairbre, The Death
of Oscar and of Cuthullin, Tlie Revenge of Finn, His
Journey to Tir na-og (sic), Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach.

poSTBr. 89

" The oharactera represented in this book ar« essentially
ideal and appertain to the Celtic type of mind." Told in
melodious and literary verse, in stanzas rhyming thus :
a, b, a, b, b, o, b, o, c.

HuTTON (Mary A.) . The Tain : an Irish Epic told in
English Verse. Pp. 495. 4to. (Maunsel).
10s. 6d. Artistically bound. 1907.

Based on the Book of Leinster version of the Tdin B6
Ciiailgno. But much material from various other Irish
epia sources has been worked into the texture. The author
was engaged on the work for ten years. Appendices giving
topographical notes, an aooount of authorities used, names
of persons, tribes and animals, Irish terms, etc. The verse
is sober and stately, with a Gaelic flavour which, however,
does not violate English idiom. Here is the opening —

One eve it chanced to Al-yill and to Maev
— The while the beautiful, full-blazing sun
Sauk 'mid the bright cloud-rafters of the sky —
That they were standing, etc.

(.'ousiNS (James H.). 1. Ben Madighan and other
Poems. (Belfast). 1894. 2. The Legend of the
Blemished King, &c. (Dublin). 1897. 3. The
Voice of One. (London). 1901. 4. The Quest
(Maunsel). 1906. 6. The Awakening, and other
Sonnets. (Maunsel). Is. net. 1908. 6. The
Bell-Branch. (Maunsel). Is. net. 1908.
" Mr. Cousins early work was an echo, now of Byron, now
of Moore. When he became interested in Irish legendary
matter he began to find himself, and his later work is
remarkable for the rich and melodious form into which he
has put themes drawn from ancient Irish mythology. He
belongs to the mystical side of. the Irish poetical movement
of to-day, and is one of the most notable writers connected
with it." — T.W.R. Sec below for separate account of 4.

The Quest. Pp. 55. (Maunsel). 1906.

Contains :— " The Going Forth of Dana," " The Sleep of the
King," " The Marriage of Lir and Niav," " The Quest,"
"The Coming of Psyche," " To Eire," and three others.
Well described as " Harvest of dreams from fields of an-
cient lore." They are excellent in language and metre, but
impalpable as dreams.

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MiLLiGAN (Alice). Hero Lays. 80 pp. (Maunsel).
2s. 6d. 1908.

In " Hero-Lays," heroism is glorified from the times of the
mythical Lugh, who drove out the Fomorians, down to
those of the devoted energy of the modern Gaelic^ League
organizer. Her verse has the notes of sincerity and
individuality; all that she writes of has been strongly and
genuinely felt.— T.W.B.

TuENCH (Herbert). Deirdre Wedded, and other
Poems. Crown 8vo. (Methuen). 5s. 1901.

An episode of thirty hours delivered by the Three Voices.
It deals with the love of Deirdre for Naoise, and is founded
on a Gaelic version of " The Tragical Tale of the Sons of
Usnaoh."

New Poems. Large post 8vo. (Methuen). 6s.

This is the first collection of poems made by this author
since the publication of " Deirdre Wedded and Other
Poems," in 1901. The theme of the chief poem is human
immortality. The thirty other pieces include " Stanzas to
Tolstoy," " The Questioners," " Daughters of Joy," and
the " Inscription on the Sword of Honour," presented to
Sir George White, V.G., and " Old Anchor Chanty." The
loves of Deirdre and Naoise are treated by Mr. Trench in
a series of bursts of imagery and description which have
very little in common with any Celtic original, and tell no
definite story. His verse in this poem has a twisted and
passionate strength of a kind which does not make easy
reading, but it is certainly poetry. — T.W.B. Messrs.
Hodder and Stoughton liavo published a volume of this
author's collected poems, including 15 new pieces, 1911.

GoRE-BooTH (Eva). 1. Poem's. (Longmans). 2.
Unseen Kings. Pp. 87. (Longmans). 1904. 3.
The Three Eesurrections and the Triumph of
Maeve. Pp. 288. (Longmans). 1905. 4. The
Egyptian Pillar. (Maunsel). 1907.

In 3, the Triumph of Maeve is a romance of the heroic age
of Ireland. 2. The title piece is a poetic drama on the
story of Cuculain and Niamh, also several other Irish poems.
4. Contains nothing distinctively Irish except " The Waves
of Breffny." The style of these poems is beautiful above
the average.

POETEY. 91

Many Irish 'poeis besides those here mentioned have gone
for inspiration to Gaelic Heroic Legend. Among others,
T. C. Ibwin, T. D. Sullivan, Katharine Tynan, and, of
course, many of the poets of the Oaelic Revival.

POETS OF PLACE.

Thus to classify the following poets is not to insinuate that
their verse is of merely local interest. But the best of their
inspiration is not drawn from historical events, nor from the
politics of the hour, nor yet from inward brooding, but is rather
sought amid the scenes and the people of that bit of Ireland
which was their home.

Alltogham (William). GcuGral N(Dto. Born, Bally-
shannon, 1824. Died 1889.

Was of the political and religious faith of the minority.
Was full all his life of the love and the memory of his
native place, though most of his life was spent in England.
He was intimate with Tennyson and Carlyle, with Eossetti,
Patmore, Millais and other pre-Eaphaelites, and by these
latter his poetry was influenced. " Though not of peasant
stock," says Lionel Johnson (in B. & R.), " he had all the
peasant's passion for the old home with its memories and
associations, and in him it blossomed into poetry, poignant,
simple, and sincere." Again : — " In his Day and Night
Songs we find all his better qualities : his wistful, smiling
Irish humour and sympathy with Irish character, with
Irish ways and scenes, with children, and with the fairy
world of fancy and myth; his deUcate love of Nature and
earth's creatures." Tennyson, Bossetti and Euskin
ardently admired his lyrics. In his lifetime he published
14 vols, of verso. His works were published posthumously
in 6 vols. : Here arc the titles of some of AUingham's
volumes : —

1. 18S0. — " Poems.'.' His first volume includes a satirical

poem, " Justice for Ireland," and three or four
others of local Irish interest.

2. 1854. — " Day and Night Songs," 1st series. 31 poems

in all.

3. 1855. — " The Music Master," etc., is simply 1 and 2

republished along with the title-poem.

4. 1805. — " Fifty Modern Poems," includes " Winding

Banks of Erne," "Abbey Assaroe," "The
Abbot of Innisfallen," but little else Irish.

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5, 1887.—" Songa, Ballada, and Storiea." Pp, 82S, (G-eo.
Bell!) Includes Day and Night Songs and tha
best of his early volumes.

6-8. 1888-90. — Three beautiful volumes published by Beeves
and Turner, viz., " Flower Pieces " (which
includes his Ballads and Day and Night Songs),
" Life and Phantasy," " Blackberries " (frag-
ments of verse, mostly of two lines, seldom
more than four).

The following two are purposely put separately : —

9. 1887.—" Irish Songs and Poems." Pp. 164. (London :

Beeves and Tumor). 5s. Contains nine airs
harmonized for voice and piano, including
" The Winding Banks of Erno," " Kitty
O'Hea," " Among the Heather," etc. Con-
tains also " Abbey Assaroe," " The Music
Master," "The i'airies," "The Banshee,"
etc., etc. With a little foreword that is pure
poetry though in the form of prose.

10. 1864. — " Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland." (London

and Cambridge). New ed., 1869. A novel in
verse, full of pictures of Irish scenery and
society. Described by the author in a despon-
dent mood as " the Landlord and Tenant
Question in flat deeasyllnbles. "

Armstrong (G. F. Savage). Poetic Works. 1st ed.,
1865. New and enlarged ed., 1877.

Ballads of Down. (Longmans).

Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic. 1st ed., 1869.

New ed., 1892.

Stories of Wicklow. In Verse. i Longmans).

7s. 6d. 1st ed., 1886. New ed., 1892.

• Victoria Regina ot Imporatrix. Jubilee Song.

1886.

Perhaps the most fertile of Irish authors of his time.
Besides the above he has done much dramatic work,
several volumes of uon-Irish poetry, and some prose.
Throughout his youth, he tells us, he read omnivorously
the great English poets and dramatists, having, before he
was twelve, read all Shakespeare. The distinct note of Mr.
Armstrong's poetry appears to be formed by the union of
his ornate and stately diction with the peculiar freshness
and directness of his pictures of outdoor life. The latter

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quality is owing to great love of nature gained from con-
stant personal companionship witli it. His poems were
almost enthusiastically received by critics in England and
America.

Gallwey (Thomas). Laj's of Killamey Lakes. De-
scriptive Sonnets. 12mo. (Hodges, Figgis).
3s. 6d.

OTIanlon (Canon John, " Lageniensis ") . Poetical
Works. (Duffy). 5s. [1893].

Consist of 1.. " The Land of Leix," a long poem in Spen-
serian stanza of nearly 2,000 lines, describing Leix with
great minuteness of detail. 2. " The Legend Lays of
Ireland," various types of stories similar to those told in
prose in " Irish Folk-Loro," etc. 3. Lastly, there are a
number of sonnets and miscellaneous poems.

Neediiam (M. p.). Irish Legends. Post 8vo. (Hodges
and Figgis). 3s. 6d. 1904.

Contents : — " St. Patrick at Bray Head," " St. Maxeutia,"
" Dhearvorghil," " A Monk of Moone Abbey," " Theliarlio
of Kildaro," "The Baron's Bride," "Ireland's Eye."
Narrative poems interesting in subject bvit not high in
literary value.

" O'Neill " (" Moira"). Songs of the Glens of Antrim.
Pp. 61. (Blackwood). 3s. 6d.

Little lyrics (25 in all) written in dialect and wonderfully
close in every way to peasant speech. They deal with
natural scenes and with the joys and sorrows of peasant
life. The best known, perhaps, is Corrymeela. The
scenery of the Antrim glens is described with singular
fidelity.

Macmanus (Seumas). Ballads of a Country Boy.
Pp. 100. 16mo. (Gill). Is. 1905,

Mr. Macmanus is no longer the barefooted little Donegal
peasant that he describes himself in the foreword, but a
man of much culture and literary power. But his home is
still in the Donegal highlands and his verse keeps the fresh-
ness of his native mountain and sea-breezes. These ballads
speak of home scenes and emotions with two or three
stirring patriotic and historical lyrics interspersed, e.g.,

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" Shane O'Neill," " The Coming of Owen Koe." There
is a fine lilt iu his verses, with a fondness for Gaelic
refrains.

Barlow (Jane). Bogland Studies. (Hodder and
Stoughton). 3rd ed., 1894.

Seven sketches or stories in verse and in dialect. They
have all the qualities of author's Irish Idylls— sympathy
with the point of view of the poor, close observation of their
ways, and faithful (on the whole) reproduction of their
speech and forms of thought. The language is full of
picturesque and quaint metaphor. They tell us of the
eviction, the sorrows of the old, the resistance to the
souper, etc.

Barlow (Jane). Ghost Bereft. Pp. 165. (Smith,
Elder). 1901.

Consists of (a) Stories in verse similar in kind to ' ' Bogland
Studies " (g.u.) and, for the most part, in the same metre
and dialect, but the title-story is in blank verse, and is
cast in dramatic form, (b) Studies in verse, shorter and
more lyrical. Has all the good qualities of the author's
verse. Miss Barlow has also published The End of
Elfintown. (Macmillan). 5s. Illustrated by L. Housman,
1894. A kind of fairy allegory in light, tripping verse, and.
The Mockers and Other Verses (Geo. Allen), 3s. 6d., which
contains only, three or four pieces on Irish themes.

RuTTLEDGE (A. K). Dream Mists. (Gill). 1911.

" A dainty little book of verse wherein the authoress sings
sweetly of the sights and scenes around her home in Con-
nemara. ' The Cold Cottages,' is both musical and
pathetic, and would of itself prove the writer a true
poet."— (I.B.L.)

Lan YON (Helen). The Hill o' Dreams. (Sealy, BiTers).
Is. 1911. ^

"The Ould Caubeen," "The Girl without a Dower,"
"Shipwreck," " Maire," "The Clamberin' Briar," "The
Valley of Tears," " The Ould Shuiler," " Haunted," " The
House of Padraig," " Danny O'Shanc," " An April Day,"
" The Mother," " Glenanan," " Sorrow and Love." These
are some of the titles. Some of the poems are written in
northern dialect, not too pronounced.

POETRY. 95

Another writer of this class is Michael Hogan, " The Bard of
Thomond." He ■published Lays and Legends of Thomond in
1861, and there was a new edition of his works in 1880.

POETS OF THE GAELIC REVIVAL.

Many of the poets of the New 'Movement have been much
influenced by the Gaelic Kevival.

Callanan (Jeremiah Joseph). A Precursor. Poems.
3rd ed., 1847. New Collection, 1861, several times
reprinted. Prefatory Memoir by M. E\ McCarthy.
Died 1829.

He was the first to give adequate versions of Irish Gaelic
poems. The inspiration of his original lyrics, such as
" Gougane Barra," is drawn from Gaelic sources, and some
have Gaelic refrains.

O'HiGGiNS (Brian), " Brian na Banban." 1. The Voice
of Banba. Pp. 68. (Gill). 6d. 1907.

2. At the Hill of the Road. Pp. 65. (Gill). 6d.

1910.

3. A Bunch of Wild Flowers. (Religious Verse).

(Gill). 6d.

(1) Subject: " Songs and Recitations for Young Ireland."
Inspired by Gaelic Revival. Mostly satiric verses against
Shoneens and anti-Irish people, with a few patriotic ballads.

(2) Country sights and folk doings in a Glen in the Mid-
lands belongs more properly to the Section " Poets of
Place. ' '

McCall (P. J.). 1. Irish Noinins. (Sealy, Bryers).
1894.

2. Songs of Erin. (Gill). 2s. 6d. 1899.

3. Pulse of the Bards : Songs and Ballads. (Gill).

2s. 6d. 1904.

Eminently singable lyrics, with a wonderful ring and swing
about them. Many are translations from the Irish, and
many more have Gaelic refrains. Some are almost folk-
songs, fresh, and racy of the soil. They include songs
inspired by historical events, and gay, half -sportive love
songs. They eschew politics.

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RooNEY (William). Poems and Ballads. Edited by
Arthur Griffith. (Gill). Is. 6d. 1910. Intro-
ductory^ Sketch of his Career by Patrick Bradley.
(Pp. xivi.).

Rooncy wrote verse, sa3's the editor, merely to rouse his
countrymen. Yet, apart from their pm-ppse, the literary
value of these poems is often high. They are full of an
intense patriotism that all Rooncy 's friends knew to be
deep and genuine. But, unlike those of the Nation, they
are, with some exceptions, rather lyrical, and even reflec-
tive than rhetorical. CeAtin "OuB X>iLir is exquisite.
Subjects : — Historical and political, several drawn from
early Ireland, some purely reflective and personal.

" Caebeey (Ethna)," i.e., Anna MacManus. The Four
Winds of Erin. (Gill). 2s. 1st ed., 1901.
Many since.

Might be classed under four heads : — Poems of the Gaelic
past, poems of love, poems of national longing and .
patriotism, poems of the Gaelic imagination. They met
with wonderful popularity (eight editions were sold the first
year), and many are known everywhere in Ireland. They
are full of the best thoughts and feelings of an exceptionally
beautiful mind and heart. They are characterised by a
much imaginative power showing itself in beautiful and
often unusual yet not far-fetched imagery, and by a won-
derful variety of metre, always full of music. They are
steeped in Gaclicism, not of mere diction only, but of
thought and inspiration. The expression of the emotion is
as direct and simple as the emotion itself is true and
sincere. " This little book should be enough," writes Fiona
MacLeod in an article in the Fortnightly, 1903, " to light
many unseen fires."

Graves (Alfred Perceval). Irish Poems. 2 vols.
(JIaunsel). 2s. net each. 1908.

The first collected edition of this author's work. First
volujtne contains his poems written in English under the
influence of Gaelic Revival, including many written in the
old Irish measures and rhyme schemes, also some short
narrative poems. Foreword by Douglas Hyde. The
second voluine consists of Irish countryside songs in dialect
— " Countryside Characters," " Countryside Courtships "

POETRY. 97

and " Songs of Sport and Occupation,'' also lyrics not
written in the rustic manner. " I know no Irish writer
who more exactly suits an air with words." " He is essen-
tially best as a pastoral poet. His songs nearly always have
to do with open-air occupations and pastimes, together
with lullabies and poems of tenderness." — D. J.
O'Donoghue, in a lecture. N.B. — Much of A. P. Graves'
work will be found in the Music Section.

Leslie (Shane). Songs of Oriel. Pp. 48. (Maunsel).
Is. net. 1908.

28 lyrics steeped in patriotic sentiment. Somewhat form-
less and fragmentary in thought, but showing forth a mind
full of generous enthusiasms and ideals. Dedicated " To
the men of Monaghan who have stood shoulder to shoulder
with me in the Gaelic Dawn."

MacDonagh (Thomas). 1. The Golden Joy. 2s. 6d.

■ 2. Through the Ivory Gate. (Sealy, Bryers). 2s.

3. April and May. (Sealy, Bryers). 6d.

4. Songs of Myself. (Hodges, Figgis). Is. 1911.

2. Consists of " At the Dream Tower," a sequence of 42 little
poems (dramatic pieces, the author calls them) not Irish in
subject. The Miscellaneous poems, mostly Irish and lyrical,
include " Knocknacree," " The Losing of B6isin," " TKe
Return of R6isin," " To Cuohulainn," " At the Grave of Se
Villebois Mareuil," etc. Gaelic influence strong, language
beautiful. In 4, the Gaelic influence, if present at all, is
not very apparent. It consists of unpretentious _ and un-
conventional little lyrics about the common things and
emotions of daily life. Simple, but refined and true.

Other poets of the Gaelic Revival are Dr. Sigeeson, De.
Douglas Hyde, and, many years ago, Edward Walsh. But
the great bwlk of their work constats in translations from the
Irinh, and the collections of translated poems published by them
will be found under A. Few poets of the last few years are
entirely uninfluenced by the movement.

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SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS.

Thomas Mooee's Satires.

Of these, Mr. Stopford Brooke says (in B. and E.) " The
graver satires, such as 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance,'
written in imitation of Pope, have neither weight, humour,
felicity of phrase, nor savage bitterness. He had no
capacity for grave or cruel poetry. . . . But the lighter
satirical poetry, the Twopenny Post-bag, the Satirical and
Humorous Poems, could not be bettered. They stand
alone in their excellence. They have a roguish happiness
in their own wit, and their wit is honestly brilliant. They
are severe, but there is so much gaiety in the severity
that even those most sharply attacked had no desire to
revenge themselves. . . . We can scarcely imagine
._ . . how society was charmed, tickled, and seasoned b"y
jeux d'espnt which hit the moment with such sagacity
imd mirth, and which, continued for nearly 30 years, kept
their freshness."

LovEE (Samuel). 1. Poetical Works. (London).
1860. 2. Metrical Tales and Other Poems.
(London). 1860. Routledge's edition is, perhaps,

the best.

' ' There are very few indeed who can be placed on the same *
level as a humorist in verse." His poems include the
famous "Widow Machree," "Barney O'Hea," "Molly
Carew," and " Rory O'More." They are full of archness
and gaiety, without coarseness. But Lover could also
write lyrics instinct with genuine feeling, e.g., " The
Angel's Whisper," and " What will you do, love? ".

Mahony (Francis Sylvester, " Father Prout"). 1, " Re-
liques of Father Prout," Prose and Verse. Edited,
with Biographical Introduction and Notes, by
Charles Kent. Pp. xxxix. + 602. (Routledge).
2. "Final Reliques of Father Prout." Edited
by Blanchard Jarrold. Pp. 531. (Chatto and
Wmdus). 1876

1. A wonderful collection of political skits, satires, bur-
lesgues, parodies. The songs of France (pp. 133-210),-
translations from many French poets, the originals being

?^r^i ^ ^°^$^ °* ^*'*^y (PP- 211-248), a similar series.
J-he bongs of Horace, being translations from the odes,

poETRr. 99

the Latin text opposite (pp. 377-466). Translations from
modern Latin poets (308-360), etc., etc. 2. Consists of
prose exclusively.

Mitchell (Susan). Aids to the Immortality of Cer-
tain Persons in Ireland. Pp. 37. (Duffy). Is.
1908.

A tiny book of very clever satires, by a young authoress.
Contemporary names are freely mentioned, e.g., W. B.
Yeats, A. E., and Greo. Moore. Sympathies, Nationalist.

There are some clever pieces in tivo little volumes of humorous
verse by J. Moody Lowry, entitled, respectivehj, " Keys at
Home,"' and " A Lay of Kilcock."

IRISH-AMERICAN POETS.

Savage (John). Poems: Lyrical, Dramatic, and
Romantic. Pp.322. (New York: Kenedy). 1st
ed., 1866; 2nd, 1870, still in print.
Born, 1828, in Dublin, died in New York, 1888. Published
several volumes— Lays of the Fatherland, 1850; Sybil,
1850; Faith and Fancy, 1864; Poems, 1870. The powerful
ballad, " Shane's Head," is a good example of his work.

O'Reilly (John Boyle). Poems of. They take up
pp. 395-710 (demy Svo) in the Volume containing
his Life and Works, edited by his wife. (Fisher
Unwin). 1891. Pp. 790.

" The sensitive lyrist, the idealist, the rebel, the eager-
hearted lover of humanity, the Christian, Bohemian,
socialist, the poet always " (W. P. Ryan, The Irish Literary
Revival). Among many poems, reflective, patriotic, and
narrative, the following are Irish in subject : — " The Exile
of the Gael," " My Native Land," " The Priests of Ireland,"
"John Mitchel," "A Nation's Test " (read at O'Connell
Centermial at Boston, 1875), " The Fishermen of Wexford,"
" The Patriot's Grave " (at Emmet Centennial), " The
Feast of the Gael, " Ireland, 1882." These have no special
beauty of diction. They are good, swinging, straightfor-
ward verse. John Boyle O'Reilly was born in Co. Meath,
but lived most of his life in U.S.A.

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JoHSTON (James MclioU). Donegal Memories and
Other Poems. Pp. 117. (New York, Buffalo:
Privately printed). 24 photos, of Donegal and of
places in U.S.A. 1910.

The " other poems " are not concerned with Ireland.
The poems, on the whole, are simple and unpretentious,
but they have a quiet charm of their own.

Collins (William). Poems, Songs, and Ballads.
Pp. 352. (New York: P. J. Kenedy). $1.20.
(Current Catalogue).

Rapparee ballads, historical and legendary poems relating
to every county in Ireland.

Ci.AiuvE (Joseph I. C). Ma-elmorda, a Metrical
Romance. 1893.

The " Fore-song " to this is of singular beauty. This
author has also written " The Fighting Race " (Kelly and
Burke and Shea) and other popular poems.

There are other Irish-American poets well worthy of mention
had a notable portion of their work dealt with Ireland. Such,
for instance, are Daniel O'Connell, of San Francisco; Father
Abram Ryan, the Poet of the South; James McCarroll, Michael
Scanlan, P. J. Ooleman, Eleanor Donnelly, Maurice Francis
Egan, and not a few others.

THE NEW MOVEllENT.

Under this heading I have placed those writers whom Mr.
Yeats has spoken of as " The little group of Irish poets who
seek to express indirectly, through myths and symbols, or
directly, in little lyrics full of prayers and lamentations, the
desire of the soul for spiritual beauty and happiness " — and
also some other poets commonly — whether rightly or wrongly
it is hard to say — associated with these. They owe much both
to the Gaelic movement and to Gaelic tradition^ It is with
much diffidence that I make the classification.

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Yeats (W, B.). 1. The Wanderings of Oisin and
Other Poems. Pp. 156. (Kegan, Paul). 5s.
[1889.]

2. The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends

and Lyrics. (London). 1892.

- 3. Poems. (London). 1895.

4. The Wind Among the Eeeds. (London). 1899.

5. Poems. (Fisher Unwin). Pp. 298. 2nd ed.,

1899.

Contains The Countess Cathleen; The Land of Heart's
Desire; "The Wanderings of Oisin"; and two collections
of short lyrics entitled " The Rose," and " Crossways,"
respectively. In his Pref. he says : " The writer revised,
and, to a great extent, re-wrote ' The Wanderings of Oisin '
and certain lyrics and ballads from the same volume."
Again, " This book and The Wind Among the Reeds con-
tain all of his published poetry that he cares to preserve."

6. In the Seven Woods. (Macmillan). 1903.

Being Poems chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age.

7. Poems. (A. H. BuUen). 1899-1905. 6s. net.

Contains the Plays — " The Shadowy Waters," " The King's
Threshold," " On Baile's Strand," entirely revised and
largely re-written, and the collection of lyrics, " In the
Seven Woods."

8. Poems.- 2nd Series. Pp. 162. (Bullen).

1909.

Contains : — The Wind Among the Reeds ; The Old Age of
Queen Maeve; Baile and Aillinn; In the Seven Woods;
Songs from Deirdre; The Shadowy Waters.

9. The Green Helmet and Other Poems. Pp. 42.

(The Cuala Press). 10s. 6d. net. 1911.

Mr. Yeats's Poems may, in general, be classed as (a)
Simple ballads, (b) Poems based upon Irish Myth, Legend,
and Romance, (c) Lyrics, for the most part mystic and
symbolistic; but some of his work escapes from this classi-
fication. Under (a) come such pieces as " The Ballad of

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Father Gilligan," " The Ballad of Moll Mage*," " The
Ballad of the Foxhunter." Under (6) eomes " The Wan-
derings of Oisin," one of the most splendid pieces of
imaginative work in modern poetry, and such fine
poems as " The Death of Cuchoolin," " Fergus and the
Druids," "The Madness of King Gfoll." But these
themes interest the poet, not for themselves, but
because of some dim symbol in the background, or
some mood of his own mind. The poet's work tends
more and more towards the class of poems under (c).
Unhappily the poet alone, too often alone, possesses the
key to his symbols. As Fiona MacLeod said : " He is
so intent upon the expression of poetry that sometimes
he prefers his ideas to his material, that sometimes he
dematerialises his ideas and suggests mystery instead of
realising beauty." What of the spirit of his poetry? It
aims to be piu-ely pagan in its inspiration, though not
with a gross and material paganism. It etherealises every-
thing, even passion. Its spirit is one of aloofness for the
common things of daily life, for action of all kinds, for
what savours of the middle or commercial classes, and for
religion, except as a purveyor of symbols. Finally, Mr.
Yeats has a style all his own, and a greater mastery over
language than perhaps any poet of recent times.

Russell (G. W., "A. E."). Homeward: Songs by
the Way. (Lane). 2s. 6d. Sq. 16mo. 1904.

The Earth Breath. (Lane). 3s. 6d. net. Sq.

16mo. 1897.

- The Divine Vision. (Macmillan). 1904.

- Nuts of Knowledge. [Selections]. (Dun Emer
Press). 1903.

Born 1867. Belongs to the newest school of Irish poetry,
to which W. B. Yeats also belongs. Is deeply versed in
the learning of the East, the Vedas and Upanishads, of
Plato and of the neo-Platonist mystics. Is an admirer
and student of the modern mystic, William Blake, also
of Thoreau, Emerson and Whitman. His poetry is
visionary, pantheistic, mystic, full of abstruse symbolism.
On the other hand, " A. E." id an ardent Nationalist, and
his best inspiration is drawn from legendary Celtic anti-
quity. Ho is also a practical man, and one of the most
successful workers in the I.A.O.S. "Perhaps no Celtic

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poet," says Stephen Gwynn, " has ever given to the soul
of his race an expression more beautiful or more charac-
teristic. ' '

SiGERSON (Dora [Mrs. Clement Shorter]). Collected
Poems, with an Introduction by George Meredith.
P. 287. (Hodder & Stoughton). 1907.

A selection from three or four earlier volumes. The poems
comprise (1) Ballads, direct, simple and unconventional.
(2) Metrical legends and other tales, some with a deeper
ineaning behind the story. (3.) Eefleotive poems, expres-
sive of intimate personal emotions and feelings, for the
most part deeply tinged with melancholy. (4) Poems
dealing with superstitions and fairy beliefs of the peasantry.
A large proportion of the volume is inspired by Ireland,
and by Gaelic Ireland. The titles of some of her other
volumes are : — " Ballads and Poems " (Bowden), 1899; " A
Fairy Changeling " (Lane), 189V; " Verses " (Stock), 1893.

Hopper (Nora). Poems Selected. (Alston Rivers)
5s. net. 1906.

Under Quicken Boughs. (Lane). 1896.

Songs of the Morning. (Richards) . 3s. 6d.

The qualities of Nora Hopper's (died, 1909) poetry have
been well described as " facile melodiousness and im-
palpable imaginativeness." W. B. Yeats says of her
poems : " They delight us by their mystery, as ornament
full of lines, too deeply interwoven to weary us with a
discoverable secret, delights us with its mystery," and
again " This book (" Ballads in Prose," which was noted
under Fiction, and which contains much verse) is full of
old beliefs and stories, mixing and changing in an en-
chanted dream." Her subjects are almost all drawn from
Irish folklore and legend, and with the delicate music of
her poems are often mingled Gaelic assonances.

" O'SuLLivAN (Seumas," pseud, of James Starkey).
1. The Twilight People. (Dublin: Whaley).
1906.

— ■— 2. Verses, Sacred and Profane, (Maunsel). ]s,
1907.

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3. The Earth Lover. (New Nation Press). Is.

1909.

A follower of the mystical school of " A. E." 2 Contains
several poems about Dublin.

CoLUM (Padraic). Wild Earth. (Maunsel). [1907].
2nd ed., 1908.

Wild Earth is dedicated "to A.E., who fostered me."
Padraic Colum writes mostly of the simple things of the
country :—" The Plougher," "A Drover," "The Trees,"
" The Suilier," " An old woman of the Beads " — these are
the titles of some of his poems. The atmosphere is that
of Connaught.

MacCathmaoil (Seosamh). 1. The Garden of the Bees.
(Gill and Erskine Mayne). 1905.

2. The Rushlight. A Volume of Folk Poetry.

1906.

3. The Man Child. (Maunsel). 1907,

4. The Gilly of Christ. (Maunsel). Is. 1907.

B. The Mountainy Singer. (Maunsel). Pp. 70.

1909.

6. Sea Eibbons and Ling. (Maunsel). 1910.

In No. 6 the author gathers what he likes best from the
previously published volumes, and adds new poems.
" These verses are the harvest of a quiet and observant
eye. The writer tells of things that have interested him
during wanderings about Ireland in verse of subtle,
rhythmic beauty."— T.W.R. The fire on the hearth, the
oalleaoh spinning at her wheel, the plough, scarecrows,
the herb-leech — such are his themes. Some of the poems
are thin enough, some obscure, some prosy, but many are
true poetry. They are steeped in Gaelicism. The author
says of No. 4 : " This booklet is an attempt at the expres-
sion of the theory that Art, being a thing removed from
Life, is . . . false." The Man Child is a symbol of
the new regenerate Ireland. N.B. — This writer has a habit
of treating the Christian mysteries as folljiorQ,

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Boyd (Thomas). Poems. (O'Donoghue or Gill).
2s. 6d. net. 1907.

" An Irish poet of much power and promise, a native of
Co. Louth, at present residing in London. Born, -1867." —
B. and R. His poem " To the Leandn Sidhe " is very
beautiful, and not of the misty kind. Others are " Balor,"
" The Death of CuchuUin," " Etlme in Tor Inis." Divi-
sions — (1) Lyrics, (2) In the Early World, (3) Prom the
Mouth of the People, (4) Personal. 25 poems, all Irish
in one way or another. Very highly praised in the English
and Scotch as well as Irish Press. " Mr. Boyd," says
The Bookman, " has not the exquisite artistry of Mr. W.
B. Yeats, but he has all of his subtle skill in melody and
verbal magic and undeniable gifts of feeling and imagina-
tion." Yet, perhaps, his facility prevents him from
reaching a very high level of art.

Young (Ella). Poems. (Maunsel). Is. 1906.

"A small volume of verse, mostly on. Irish themes, con-
taining much fine thought, delicately expressed. A sonnet
on ' The Star of Knowledge, ' shows considerable power in
this verse form." — T.W.R.

Weekes (Charles). About Women. Verses. (Maun-
sel: Tower Press Booklets). Is. 1907.

" Comments upon life, sometimes of rather an acid flavour,
with an occasional strain of mysticism." — T.W.R.

Stephens (James). Insurrections. (Maunsel). 1909.

" 26 short poems, which one might be inclined to call
morbid but for their evident sincerity and for the fact that
they deal with very grim realities. They are, for the most
part, pictures of degradation and despair, idylls of the
gutter, drawn with a strong and inflexible hand." — T.W.R.

Synge (John M.). Poems and Translations. (Maunsel).
3s. 6d. [1909]. 1911.

Short introduction by W. B. Yeats. Of these poems, 27
in all, Synge wrote : "I do not feel very sure of them,
yet enough of myself has gone into them to make me sorry
to destroy them." " What went into them was the more
grim and cynical side of the author's mind. Heavy with

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sombre thought, they are not cheerful reading, nor repre-
sentative of the author's powers at their best, but they
are unmistakably, the work of a strong and a poetic
individuality."— T.W.B.

Keohlee (Thomas). Songs of a Devotee. Pp. 40.
(Mamisel). Is. 1906.

SO short poems, mostly introspective and semi-religious —
"The Vision," "Night," "Consolation," " Mea Culpa,"
" Adoration," etc.

I have ventured, perhaps wrongly, to group together the
following poets, but I have not ventured to give the group a
name.

Tynan (Katharine). 1. Louise de la Valliere. (Kegan,
Paul). 1885.

The title poem occupies only 6 pp. " The Flight of the
Wild Geese " is tlie only poem Irish in subject,

2. Shamrocks. Pp. 197. (Kegan, Paul). 1887.

Contains: — "The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne "
(55pp.) in very varied metres, " The Story of Aibhrio,"
" The Fate of King Feargus." The rest are miscellaneous
lyrics and sonnets, for the most part not concerned with
Ireland.

3. Ballads and Lyrics. Pp. 153. (Kegan, Paul).

1891.

Contains : — " Children of Lir," " Connla of the Golden
Hair." Few of the rest are Irish.

4. The Wind in the Trees. (Grant Eichards).

1898.

"A Book of Country Verse." Aspects of nature treated
with childlike simplicity and directness. Irish refrains
and an Irish note, but nothing expressly Irish.

6. Innocencies. Pp. 70. (Maunsel), 3s. 6d.

Nothing Irish in subject. " Xmas Communion," beautiful
and reverent.

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6. Collected Poems, (G411). 7g. 6d. Pref, by

George Wyndham. 1903.

7. New Poems. Pp. 76. (Sidgwiok & Jackson).

3s. 6d. 1911.

Her subjects are for the most part drawn either from
Catholic legend, or ancient Irish legend, or from the life
of wild nature. She does not attack moral problems.
Her colours are as pure and her outlines as definite as
is an Italian pre-Rapha«lite painting. Her first volume of
poems was hailed with justice as one of the earliest
symptoms of the revival of imaginative literature in
Ireland after the Famine had blighted the movement of
the Young Irelanders. — T.W.R. Three notes constantly
recur in her poetry — ^love of country, religious feeling, and
an intimate appreciation of the beauty of external nature.
As an example of the second of these, take such poems as
" The Chapel of the Grail," " The Angel of the Annun-
ciation," " The Eock of Ages." It is not so much of the
grand or the terrible aspects of nature that the poet sings
or of its mystic symbolism. She sees food for observation,
for love, and for song in bird and insect and leaf and flower,
the running water and the rain, and weaves into exquisite
lyrics what these things tell her. Other sources of her
poetry are the pathos of life and the afEections of the
home. There is a curious artlessness and almost naive
simplicity about her poetry, which is really a high form of
art. Her latest volume shows these characteristics. Here
are some of the titles — '■ The Thrush and the Man,"
" Cowslips," " Lambs," " The Train that goes to Ireland,"
"The Irish Harp," " Christmas Eve in Ireland " (deeply
religious), " Holy Communion."

MuLHOLLAND (Rosa). Vagrant Verses. Pp. 155.
(Kegan Paul). 1886.

In this volume the following only are Irish in subject : —
" Emmet's Love," " The Children of Lir," " Kilfenora,"
" St. Brigid." " The Children of Lir " is a lyrical and
dramatic ballad, occupying 8pp. " Emmet's Love " (5pp.).
The rest are brief lyrics.

Spirit and Dust. (Elkin, Mathews). 1908.

General Note. — Her poems have many of the character-
istics mentioned above as being those of Katharine Tynan —
love of Ireland, deep religious feeling, und love of external

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nature. Tlicy show perhaps a finer sense of the beauty
of landscape, their religiousness is less familiar, and they
are pervaded at times by a solemn thoughtfulness. Most
of her lyrics are pure songs, simple, direct, and true, and
all but perfect in literary technique.

FuHLONG (Alice). Roses and Rue. (Elkin Mathews).
2s. 6d. 1899.

" Irish poems inspired by passion and patriotism." —
Academy. " Her poetry has a delicacy, pathos and music,
and much power of painting a vivid picture in few words."
— (B. & R.), B. Co. Dublin. C. 1873.

Russell (Revd. M.), S.J. Erin: Verses, Irish and
Catholic. Pp. 110. 12mo. (Gill). [1st ed.,
1880]. 2nd, 1887.

Mostly youthful verses, but showing the same literary
skill, the same kindly, gentle mind, the same simple
faith and religious spirit as the later poems. " The
Irish Farmer's Sunday Morning " and " The Irish Child's
First Communion " are somewhat lengthy narrative poems.
Others, such as " Down by the Dodder," " A Picnic at Ros-
trevor," " The Alio Unvisited," are literary jeux d'esprit.
" The Little Flower Strewers " and another are Irish iu
subject. The remainder are not. Father Russell has also
published "Emmanuel," "Madonna," "Idyls of Kill-
owen," and " A Soggarth's Last Verses." This last, a
slim little volume published by Burns and Dates in 1911.
Apart from some personal poems, this contains only one
little humorous poem on a subject distinctively Irish.

Probyn (May). Pansies : A Book of Poems. (Elkin
Mathews). 2s. 6d.

" This too small book is a mine of the purest poetry, very
holy and very refined, and removed as far as possible from
the tawdry and the commonplace." — Irish Monthly.

Kavanagh (Rose). A Selection from her Poems.
Edited by'Rcvd. M. Russell, S.J. (Gill) Is 6d
net. 1909.

Simple and delicate lyrics inspired by the love of Ireland.

T.W.R. Mr. O'Donoghue, in his Poets of Ireland, 1st ed.,
speaks of her death, which took place in 1891, as " one of

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the greatest losses Irish literature has had to bear for a long
time." The book is prefaced by a gracefully -written and
sympathetic biography from the pen of the Editor.

Byrne (W. A., " William Dara ")■ A Light on the
Broom. (Gill). 2s. 6d. 2nd thousand. [Isted.,
Sealy, Bryers, 1901]. 1904.

Reflective poems, mostly in lyric metres, sounding most
often a sweet, but melancholy, note. Treating aspects of
life, and the things of the spirit, but also various subjects,
national and other. The style is much above the common.
Singled out for special praise by the Times Lit. Suppl. in a
review of Cooke's " Dublin Book of Irish Verse."

OTHEE RECENT VOLUjMES OF VERSE.

^McDonnell (Randal). The Tower of St. Michan's
and Other Verses. Pp.63. (Gill). Is. 1902.

Contains : — " Glcndalough," " Wolfe Tone to Sarsfield,"
" JJemoi y of Tone," "Land of Erin." Rest mostly not
Irish. lie also published another little volume, "The
Perfect Rest." (Gill). Is.

O'DoNNELL (Frank Hugh). The Message of the
Masters. (Long). 2s. 6d. net. 2nd ed. 1904.

A Legend of Aileach. Written in rhythm of Macaulay's
ballads. A stately and stirring narrative of the historic
clans of Ireland. Melodious treason. — (Press.)

" CuiEEADoiB." The Music of Freedom. Pp. 105.
(Cork: The Risen Gaedheal Press). 1907.

Langbeidge (Canon). The Power of Red ilichael and
Other Poems. (Maunsel). 2s. 6d. net. 1909.

Echoes of weird visions, quaint legends, or grim tragedy.
Fantastic ballads, old-fashioned in manner though modern
enough in thought.

Stacpoole (H. de Vere). Poems and Ballads.
(Murray). 1910.

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Gaevey (Maura). A Handful of Bog Lilies. (Sealy,
Bryers). 1910.

S'loweb (Robin). Eire and Other Poems. Pp. 56.
(Locke, Ellis). Is. net. 1910.

Mr. Flower has tlie gift of melody which gives a charm
to all his little poems, singing of love, or joy, or beauty —
or of Ireland, " the grey land, the grey sky, and the grey
sea swell." Some of the poems have appeared in Country
Life and the Academy.

Fawcett (W. J.). Frederick's Child and Other Poems.
Pp. 100. 16mo. (Belfast : Davidson & McCor-
mick). 1910.

Thomson (J. G.). Lays of the Covenant and Other
Poems. Pp. 64. (Belfast : Davidson & McCor-
mick). Is. 1911.

" MouNTJOY (Desmond)." The Hills of Hell, and Other
Verses. Pp. 40. (Nisbet). 2s. 6d. net. 1911.

McCarthy (D. A.). Voices from Erin, and Other
Poems. (Sampson, Low). 3s. 6d. net. 1911.

Patriotic and miscellaneous — "The Days of the Gael,"

" St. Patrick's Day Memories," " Robert Emmet," " Fr.
O'Growney," etc.

Cox (Eleanor R.). A Hosting of Heroes and Other
Poems. (Sealy, Bryers). Is. 1911.

Gaelic legend — Cuculain, Emer, Mananaan, by an
Irish poetess already well known in America.

Kelly (Eleanor F.). Shamrock Sprays. Pp. 72.
(Galway: Connaught I'nbune). 1911.

IV.-IRISH MUSIC.

' ' Dear music of my country I I cannot speak of it without
enthusiasm. I cannot think of it without feeling my lieart glow
with tenderness and pride." — ^Petrie.)

" Irish music, so sweet and sad, and low and lonely, comes with
a pathos, a melancholy, a melody on the pulse of the heart that
no other music breathes, and while it grieves it soothes. It
seems to Qow with long complaint over the course of ages, or
to gasp with broken sobs through the ruins and fragments of
historic thought." — (Henry Giles, see p. 10.)

" Irish songs are emanations from on high, which, falling drop
by drop upon the soul, pass through it like memories of another
world." — (Ernest Renan.)

The following list lays no claim to be a complete bibliography
of Irish music. It is hoped, indeed, that no important collection
of Irish music has been omitted, but it has been found possible
(and indeed useful) to mention only such sheet-niusio as is to
be found in the current catalogues of the music publishers.^
Of my indebtedness to Dr. Grattan Flood and Father O'Neill I
have already spoken in the Preface. My best thanks are also
due to the authorities of the National Library, who gave mc
access to the Joly Collection of Music, and to the Assistants
who aided me in my researches there.

Abbreviations : — arr. = arrangement or arranged : accomp. =
accompaniment : *before an item indicates that it is to be found
in the current catalogues of the music publishers. W.G.F. are
the initials of Dr. Grattan Flood, G. O'N, are those of Father
Geo. O'Neill, S.J.

I> — Collections of Irish Music.

EARLY COLLECTIONS.

By De. Geattan-Flood, Mus.D.

" Early collections of Irish music are extremely scarce. We
find a few Irish airs in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book as far
back as the end of the 16th century. In 1613 an Irish dance
was printed in an English Collection called Parthenia Inviolata.

_iThe principal Dublin music publishers are Messrs. Pigott,
Cramer Wood, Pohlmann, and, to a lesser extent, Messrs. Duffy,
Gill, and Browne and Nolan.

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Somo Irish airs were included in a Dutoli music book printed
at Amsterdam in 1615, and in at least six other subsequent
Dutch collections — between 1618 and 1647. Playford's Dancing
Master (16.'50) — with the subsequent editions as late as 1728 —
contains numerous Irish airs, and there are a few Irish dances
in a French collection dated 1706. Irish melodies are to be
found in D'Urfey's ' Pills to Purge Melancholy ' (1698-1720)—
we hoped they served his purpose — and in Walshe's Compleat
Country Dancing Master (1719), and in many other old dance
oollootions of those days. We may mention, too, The Universal
Musician (1738) which, as might be expected from its title,
gathered some things out of Ireland.

Then there are the ballad operas — some thirtj' in number —
of the mid-eighteenth century. Some of these teem with Irish
airs. We may note especially The Beggar's Opera (1728), Coffey's
Beggar's Wedding (1729), and Kane O'Hara's Midas (1760).
O'Keafie's musical plays abound in Irish airs, set to his own
verses, and so do those of Leonard MacNally, Ihe informer, who
betraj-ed Bobert Emmet."— (W.G.F.)

18th century collections

Neale's Collections of Irish Times. Published by
John and W. Neal (also Neale, Neill, and O'Neill).
(Dublin: Christchurch Yard). 1726-27.

Viz. :— 1. A Book of Irish Tunes. 2. A Book of Irish and
Scotch Tunes. 3. A Collection of Country Dances.

\\'right (Daniel). A Choice Collection of Scotch,
Irish, and Welsh Airs. (London: D. Wright).
1727;

" For the violin and German flute." Irish airs selected
by Dermot O 'Conor of Limerick (who in 1723 translated
into English Koating's History of Ireland). " A unique
collection : only one copy known." — (W.G.F.) This collec-
tion is generally known as Aria di Camera.

Burke, Thumoth. Collections, viz.: (1) Twelve
Scotch and twelve Irish Airs! (2) Twelve English
and twelve Irish Airs. (London : J. Simpson).
C. 1742-3. ^

No. 2 contains a few by Carolan. Most interesting colled-
lions. Reprinted by Thoroughgood (1760) and Thompson
(1783).

IRISH MUSIC. 113

O'Carolan (Turlough). Collection of Irish Airs.
Pp.28. (Dublin: Neale). 1747.

72 airs, melody given without words. The collection was
reprinted in 1779 as " Cardan's Old Irish Tunes," 4th
edition, by John Lee. Hime, of College Green, issued
another edition in 1783. There were four editions between
1780 and 1800; and in 1804 Broderiok and Wilkinson, of
London, published an edition, but omitted names of tunes.

Lee's Masque. 3 books. (Dublin : Samuel Lee^i
1753-4.
A collection of songs, 4 in each number.

Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes. (Dublin : Samuel
Lee). C. 1765.

Mountain's Hibernian Catch Book. (Dublin : Henry
Mountain). 1778.
Dedicated to the Hibernian Catch Club.

Lee's Gentleman's Catch Book. (Dublin: Anne Lee).
1781. •

Aird's Selectifin of Airs. 6 vols. (Glasgow: Aird).
1778-1799.
Melody only.

McLean's Selection of 22 Original Airs. (Dublin).
1780.

"For the pianoforte,, violin or flute." The originality is
not obvious, most of the airs having been published before.
Airs mostly Irish.

The Vocal Magazine. Pp. 348. (Dublin : Anne Lee).
1780.

1286 songs — no music.

O'Brien's Lusorium. 12mo. (London: Denham)-
1782.

A collection of convivial songs with musjc,

114 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

The Musical Miscellany. (Perth: J. Brown). 8vo.
1786.

A select ooUeotion of Scots, English, and Irish songs set
to music. A valuable but very scarce book.

Thompson's Hibernian Muse. Obi. 4to. (London:
Thompson). 1787-8.

A valuable collection, containing 37 airs by Carolan and
67 other airs.

Fifty Favourite Irish Airs. Obi. folio. (Edinburgh :
'John Brysson). 1791.
Melody only. Eeprinted by A. Mackintosh, Edinburgh,
1807.

M'Fadyen. 1. Repository of Scots and Irish A.irs.
Obi. 4to. (Glasgow)'. 1793. For the Harpsi-
chord or Pianoforte. 2. Collection of Airs (Eng-
lish and Irisli). 5 Vols. (Glasgow). 1795.

Cooke (B.). Selection of 21 Favourite Original Irish
Airs. (Dublin: Cooke). 1794.

" Never before printed." Arranged for piano, violin, or
flute.

Forty-Eight Original Irish Dances. Folio. (Dublin :
Hime). Several editions. 1796-1804.

" Never before printed." " With basses for the pianoforte,
and proper figures for dancing."

Bunting (Edward).* First collection appealed in 1796.
" Ancient Irish Music." Bunting claimed this as
" the first and only genuine collection of genuine
Irish harp music up to 1796." (London : Preston).
Second Collection. (London: Clementi). 1809.
Contained 77 airs. 2nd ed., 1811. Dissertation
on Irish harp. Third Collection. Ancient Music
of Ireland. (Dublin : Hodges and Smith). 1840.
140 airs, 100 published for the first lime, with a disser-
tation on the antiquity and characteristics of Irish music

* For an account of his life-work see Mrs. Milligan Fox's
"Annals of the Irish Harpers," noted on p. 154.

IRISH Musicr. 115

and musical instruments, witla some account of various
eminent harpers of later times, and notices of tlie more
remarkable pieces of the collection. ' ' Arranged in true harp
style for the pianoforte." With many he gives no words.
Bunting spent 50 years at his collection. He journeyed
up and down the country, into the remotest places, chiefly
Ulster and Connaught. His object was " to guard the
primitive air with religious veneration " . . . " the
pure, racy old style of every bar and note." Yet Bunting
has treated the tunes much more freely than these profes-
sions would lead one to expect.

By Same. The Ancient Music of Ireland. Eoyal
4to. (Hodges Figgis). 30s. 1887.

Arranged for the pianoforte. A re-issue. Bunting's third
and last collection, having appeared in 1840.

Vocal Magazine. 4 Vols. (Edinburgh: C. Steward).
1797-8-9, 1800.
Music and words of about 100 songs.

O'Faerell. 1. Irish Music for the Union Pipes. Pp.
27 + 53. Obi. 8vo. (London). C. 1797-1800.
2. Pocket Companion for the Irish Pipes. 4 Vols.
Obi. 8vo. Pp. 168 + 148. A melody to a page;
sometimes two. 1804-1810.

Very scarce. 2 is described as " a grand selection of
favourite tunes, both Scotch and Irish, adapted for the
pipes, flute, flageolet and violin, some of which was never
before published, with some favourite duets for the above
instruments." Only the tune is given, no notes or accom-
paniment. 1 — " Comprising a variety of the most favourite
slow and sprightly tunes, set in proper stile (sic) and
taste, with variations, and adapted likewise for the German
flute, violin, flagelet (sic), piano and harp. Also a
treatise with the most perfect instructions ever yet pub-
lished for the pipes." The Pocket Companion contains
many rare Irish tunes. The treatise on the pipes is pro-
bably the most valuable work on the subject.

Adams (A.) : Musical Repository. (Glasgow). 12mo.
pp. 278. 1799.
Favourite Scotch, English, and Irish Songs, set to music.

IIQ GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

McGouN. 1. Eepository of Scots and Irish Airs. Obi.
4to. (Glasgow). 1799. For the German Flute
or Fife. 2. Repository of Scots and Irish Airs.
2 Vols. (Glasgow). 1803. For the Harpsichord
or Piano.

19th century collections.

Ckotch (William), ]\Ius.D. Specimens of Various
Styles of Music. 3 Vols. Folio. (London: E.
Birchall). 1800, 1804, 1820.

Lectures delivered by Professor Crotch at Oxford in the
years named. The Irish airs are Nos. 18 to 76. The three
volumes were reprinted by Welsh and Hawes in 1822.

MuLHOLLAND (Johu Macphcrson). A Selection of Irish
and Scots Tunes. (Edinburgh). 1804.
Not to be confounded with John MulhoUand of Belfast.

HoLDEN (SmoUet), Music Publisher, Dublin. 1. Col-
lection of Old-Established Irish Slow and Quick
Tunes. 0. 1804-6. 2. Collection of the Most
Esteemed Old Irish Melodies. (Dublin). C. 1808.
3. Favourite Irish Airs. Arranged or Harp or
Piano. 2 Vols. (London). 1810. 4. Old Irish
Melodies, with New Words arranged as Songs,
Duets, or Glees, with Accompaniment for Piano,
Harp, Flute, or Violin. (Dublin). 1806-12.

The words of No. 4 are by I. S., Esq. 60 melodies in all.
Many of the words and melodies are altered from 2 above.
1 is arranged for harp, piano, violin, flute, or bagpipes. 2,
With new words, arranged as songs, duets, or glees.
Accompaniment for piano, flute, or violin. Two books.
30 airs in each. In 2 and 4 the words are uu-national, and
somewhat old-fashioned and sentimental, e.g.. Quit not
yet the shady bower. The moon throws her shadowy
light on the hill, O, will you sit in the bower with me?
Oh, pleasant was the moon, etc. The name of the old Irish
melody is given, nothing more. Moore drew a good deal
on these collections. 3 has 90 airs in each volume. Some
aje well known, e.g., Cruiskeen Lawn, Savournah (sic)
Deelish, Rakes of Mallow. In sonje cases the air is given
with variations, No words,

IRISH MUSIC. 117

OwENsoN (Miss Sydney). Twelve Original Hibernian
Melodies. Folio. (London: Preston). 1805.

With English words. Arranged for voice, with piano
aoeompaniment. Miss Owenson was afterwards the famous
Lady Morgan.

Fitzmaueice's New Collection of Irish Airs. 6 nos.
(Edinburgh). 1805.

For piano or Union Pipes. 26 airs.

HiME. Selection of Original Irish Airs, never before
printed. (Dublin). 1805-8.

Hime was a Dublin publisher. Arranged for the piano and
violin or flute. An interesting eolleotion, but the announce-
ment of " never before printed " is opposed to facts.
W.G.F.

Mooee's Irish Melodies. The date of their first issue
was April 5th, 1808; the publisher was William
Power, of Westmoreland Street, Dublin; the 1st
number contained 12 airs. Nos. 1 to 7 appeared at
intervals between 1808 and 1818, all published by
William Power, the symphonies by Sir John
Stevenson. Nos. 8 and 9 were published in London
by James Power in 1821, symphonies and accoroi-
paniments by Sir Henry Bishop. But in June of
the same year a pirated edition was published in
Dublin by W. Power, accompaniments by Sir J.
Stevenson. Lastly No. 10, with a Supplement,
appeared in 1834. An account of the modem
editions will be found on pp. 133-4.

Ceosby (B.) Irish Musical Repository. Pp. 288
8vo. 1808. (London).

" A choice selection of esteemed Irish songs [91 in all]
adapted for the voice, violin and German flute." The
bare melody is given, but some of the songs are arranged
for three voices. Valuable as a collection of the original
" stage-Irish " type. " St. Paddy with whiskey he

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suckled me, among the sweet boys of Ki-la-lah," "With
my smalhilow, bulberoo, ditheroo, whack," " 'Tis whiskey
I adore." Contains vulgar songs like Mr. MuUins and
Mrs. Whack, Corporal Casey, Paddy O'Blarney, Dennis
Delany, Captain Megan. Yet contains songs like " There's
a dear little plant," and some sentimental songs. No
author of words or airs indicated. Name of original air
given in only a few cases. Of antiquarian interest. It is
now rather scarce.

Murphy (John). Irish Airs and Jigs, with Variations.
Folio. 1809. No imprint. (Glasgow or Paisley).

Arranged for the piano, violin and 'cello. J. M. was a
performer on the Union Pipes at Eglinton Castle. 40 pp.,
very closely crowded. A scarce volume, by a wandering
Irish piper.

Power (W.). Musical Cabinet. Pp. 54. Obi. 8vo.
(Dublin). 1810.

For the German flute, flageolet or violin. Contains songs,
marches and dances. No accompaniment, merely the air.
Origin of airs not stated. Many non-Irish melodies.
" Of no particular interest." W.G.F.

MuLiioLLAND (John). A Collection of Irish Airs. 2
Vols. (Belfast). 1810.

Adapted for the harp, violin, flute and pipes. Dedicated
to Charles Earl O'Neill, K.P. These two volumes are
of considerable interest, but are now very scarce.

Hartstonge (M. W.). Minstrelsy of Erin. 16mo.
(Dublin), 1812. Edinburgh. 1816.

Poems, lyrical and descriptive. No music.

Thomson (Geo.). A Select Collection of Irish Airs.
2 Vols. Folio. (Edinburgh and London : Pres-
ton). 1814-16.

" Airs united to characteristic English poetry, with sym-
phonies and accompaniment for the piano, violin and 'cello
composed by Beethoven." See notice under Beethoven '

IBISH MUSIC. 119

FiTzsiMONs (Edward). A Selection of Original Melo-
dies of Erin. Folio. (Dublin: Goulding).
1814-16

Symphonies, etc., by Dr. J. Smith, with characteristic
words by E. Fitzsimons. Scarce. " Fitzsimons was a
poor verse maker, and his colleague. Dr. John Smith, was
an indifferent musician, although Professor of Music in
Dublin "University from 1845 till his death, in 1861." —
(W.G.F.)

KiNLOCH (Monro). One Hundred Airs. Obi. 8vo.
(London: Goulding). 1816-6.

Principally Irish. Selected and composed by Lieut.-Gen.
Dickson, arranged for piano, violin, flute, etc., by M.
Thomson, Organist of St. Nicholas', Newcastle-on-Tyne.

MacCullagh (E.), Music Publisher, Dublin. Collec-
tion of Irish Airs. 3 Vols. Dublin. 1821.

For the flute, violin or flageolet. Arranged as duets or
solos. Long since out of print.

O'Callaghan (Hon. George). Ancient Irish Airs. 5
Nos. (Dublin). Folio. 1822-31.

Symphonies and accompaniments by Sir J. Stevenson.
The 1st No. was issued in 1822, and the 5th in June, 1831.
" An interesting collection, now very scarce. The words
are bv the Hon. George O'Callaghan, and are rather
vapid."— (W.G.F.)

M'CsEERY (J.). A Selection from the Ancient Music of
Ireland. Pp. xx. + 208. (Petersburg, U.S.A. :
Yancey & Burton). 1824.

Arranged for flute or violin. Some of the melodies,
" adapted to American poetiy," chiefly composed by T.
M'C. ... . Historical and critical observations on an-
cient Irish music.

Smith (E. A.). • The Irish Minstrel. Pp. 106. Large
8vo. (Edinburgh). 2 eds. 1825.

A selection from the vocal melodies of Ireland, ancient
and modern, arranged for the piano. Suppressed by
Power, Moore's publisher, for infringement of copyright.

120 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

The words of these songs were mostly written by Scotch,
men :— D. Weir of Greenock, Alexander Laing, R. Hogg,
James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd, H. Scott Riddell,
Tannahill, Bayne, etc. " The airs (103) are well chosen
and many of them are rare. This is. a scarce volume." —
(W.G.F.)

E&AN (Charles). A Selection of National Lyrics.
43 pp. 4to. (Dublin). 1826.

The poetry by Ed. Bowling. Melodies arranged with
accompaniment for the harp, piano, or royal portable Irish
harp by Ch. Egan, professor of the harp to H.E.H. the
Princess Augusta. " Only of antiquarian interest. Very
scarce."— (W.G.F.)

Clinton (J.). 1. Two Hundred Irish Melodies for the
Flute. (London: Eobert Cocks). 1840. 2. Gems
of Ireland. 1841.

200 airs from Carolan, Connolan, etc., arranged for the
flute.

Cbawpoed (Mrs. Julia). Irish Songs, set to Music by
F. Nicholls Crouch. 1840.

F. W. N. Crouch was in his time a well-known musical
composer. He lectured on Irish music and wrote music
for a large number of Irish songs. One of his compositions
has achieved lasting popularity, " Kathleen Mavourneen,"
as also its companion song, "Dermot Asthore."

GuEBNSEx (Wellington). Songs of Ireland (Lou-
don: Metzler). N.d. (18B0).

51 songs newly adapted and arranged with symphonies
and accompaniments. Words by T. Campbell, Furlong,
Davis, Curran, Griffin, Ogle, Lysaght, Banim, Callanan,
and others. None by Moore. A fine selection (except,
" I'll never get drunk any more "), varied in kind.
Original names of airs not given. Moore's songs were
copyright, and hence could not be used.

Alexander (I.). Flowers of the Emerald Isle. (Lon-
don and Dublin). Circa 1840.

" 200 favourite Irish melodies, including aU the most
celebrated airs by S. Lover, and Moore's National Melodies,
arranged for the flute or violin." London : James Alexander,
101 Leadenhall Street. "Of no particular value. A
scarce volume now rarely met with." (W.G.F.)

IRISH MUSIC. 121

Crouch (F. W. Nicholls). Songs of Erin. (London).
1841.

A collection of original Irish melodies. Words by Desmond
Ryan. Melodies arranged and adapted by P.W.N. C. 12
songs — Eveleen 'Moore, The Sunny Days of Old, The
True Shamrock, The Bride of Athlone, The Pulse of my
Heart, The Rakes of MaUow, etc. For Crouch, see also
under Crawford (Mrs. Julia).

Heffernan (W. J.). 1. Erin's Sacred Harp. Pp. 82.
(Novello). N.d. 12 Melodies. The Music, for 1,
2, or 3 voices, by W. J. H. The Poetry on diilerent
religious subjects by Rev. J. Fitzgerald, P.P., of
Castletown Delvin, Ireland. 2. Sacred Melodies.
1841. A similar collection.
" Of no particular interest."— (W.G.P.)

Hudson (W. E.) : National Music of Ireland. 1840-
1842.

Airs and words and piano accompaniment, with an account
of each tune. Printed in The Citizen and the Dublin
Monthly Magazine issued by William Elliot Hudson.

Fitzgerald (Eev. Joseph). The Old Songs of Old Ire-
land. Pp. 63. 4to. (London). 1843.

Words by Revd. J. F. Symphonies and accompaniments
by Wellington Guernsey. 12 songs. The airs are not the
most familiar. Words of no great value. Father
Fitzgerald was P.P. of Castletown Delvin, and subsequently
of Rahan, King's Co., where he died in 1856. See also
under Heffernan. " Merely of antiquarian interest." —
(W.G.F.)

HoRNCASTLE (F. W.) : Music of Ireland. Folio. 3
parts. Pp. 109 folio. London. 1844.

" As performed in Mr. H.'s Irish entertainments, in which
are introduced the Bardic and Connaught Caoines, songs,
fairy chant, rural ballads, songs of occupation, marches,
jigs, etc. Harmonized and arranged with accompaniments
for the harp or piano." He says he gives these airs " as
I received them from the natives of Ireland." He takes
some translations from Hardiman {q.v.). Several of the
songs are given in Irish (phonetically spelled). Many are

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given with full parts for several voices. In other cases
the choruses are given in parts. An interesting collection.
' ' A tolerably good collection, having several novelties.
JNIany of the airs were taken down at first hand." —
(W.G.F.)

Lynch (John P.). Melodies of Ireland. 6 books.
(Dublin: Pigott). 1845.

Arranged for piano. About 120 airs, chiefly dance music.
No words with songs. Aims to be "a collection of Irish
airs arranged in their true and original form without
additions of any kind, in a style that will answer for
finished performers, without being beyond the reach of
the most ordinary capacity." Claims to be the first col-
lection of this kind. Includes " very many beautiful airs
that have never before been published." Originally pub-
lished in monthly numbers, 23 of which appeared, with
5 airs in each number. Long since out of print. Lynch
was a Dublin musician.

The Spirit of the Nation. Pp. 347. 4to. (Duffy).
1845, 1858, etc.

Ballads and songs by writers of the " Nation," set to
music. " Two-thirds of the verses in this volume have
never been reprinted from the newspaper till now [1845] ,
the remaining third are re-edited from the original Spirit
of the Nation [1843]. Contains 17 airs specially com-
posed for this volume', and 22 old Irish airs arranged for
the voice T^ith piano accompaniment. But not all the
poems given are set to music. Finely edited, with Indexes
(1) to Irish phrases used in work, (2) to names of places,
(3) to names of persons, (4) to the airs, (5) to the poems.
A subsequent edition contained 10 songs newly set to
music by Prof. Glover. A new edition, by Dr. Grattan
Flood, with an Introduction, giving the sources of the airs,
was published by James Dufiy and Co. in 1911. Price,
7s. 6d.

FoHDE (William). 300 National Melodies of the British
Isles. 3 vols.

Vol. III. contains 100 Irish airs, arranged for piano. No
notes to indicate origin of air, nor any other information.
(London : Cocks and Co.). 1850.

IRISH MUSIC. 123

By the Same. Encyclopsedia of Melody. G vols. 3,050
airs. (Only the Melody)? (London: Cocks and
Co.). 1846.

" Among the Irish airs are about a dozen that had not
previously been recorded. Forde was a friend of Thomas
Davis, and, like him, a Corkman. He died in 1850.
Both works are scarce, and are long since out of print." —
(W.G.F.)

CoNBAN (M.). National Music of Ireland. (London:
Johnson). 2nd ed., 1850. [1st ed., 1846. Duffy].

Containing the history of the Irish Bards, the National
Melodies, the Harp, and other musical instruments of
Ireland. " An excellent little compendium for the time
in which it was written. Rather scarce, and long since
out of print."— (W.G.F.)

Henderson (John), of Belfast. Flowers of Irish

Melody. 2 vols. 96 pp. 4to. and 192 pp. Bvo.
(Belfast and Dublin). 1847. (7th ed., 1853).
A selection of popular Irish songs. The music by eminent
composers. Arranged for the voice, flute, violin, etc.
Names of airs and authors of words not given. Some are
comic — Captain Mulligan, Booney Flinn, Paddy Carey,
Paddy Croker (vulgar), Paddy O'Rigge.

O'Daly (John). Poets and Poetry of Munster.
(Duffy). 1849. 2nd ed., 1860.

Irish and English words, Mangan's translations. Melodies
given without piano accompaniment. " They are too
frequently in a rambling or over-adorned harp style." —
(G. O'N.) A new edition was issued by Duffy in 1885.

By the Same. Poets and Poetry of Munster. 2nd
Series. With Translations by Dr. Sigerson. 8vo.
(Dublin). 1860.

The second series is now extremely scarce, and is out of
print.

*Callcott (W. Hutchins). Irish Melodies. (Augener).
2s.

100 celebrated airs arranged by W.H.C. Originally pub-
lished by Addison and Hollier in 1851. "Of no particular
merit. Gallcott died in 1882."— (W.G.F.)

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Wilson (Jas.)- Musical Encyclopaedia. (London).
New ed. 1852.

" Being a collection of the approved English, Scottish, and
Irish songs, with appropriate music, adapted to the, voice,
piano, etc. To which is prefixed an elaborate essay on the
first principles of music, by Wm. Grier." The work was
originally published in 1835.

SuEENNE (J. T.). Songs of Ireland. Pp. xxiv. + 1B6.
Large 8vo. (Edinburgh, etc.). 1854.

Introduction by G. F. Graham, giving critical survey of
the characteristics of Irish minstrelsy. "Without words.
Arranged for piano. Contains 223 melodies. Carefully
indexed. A revised edition was brought out by BusseU
of Dublin, edited by Francis Robinson, Mus.D., in 1860.
" This is an admirable collection, but out of print." —
(W.G.F.)

Peteie (Geo.) , Ancient Music of Ireland. Pp. xxiv.
+ 196. Folio. (Dublin : Society for the Pre-
servation of the Melodies of Ireland). 1855.

Chiefly valuable for the learned dissertations on the genesis
of the airs. A supplement was issued (1882) containing
34 airs. These two collections are arranged for the piano.
Both are now scarce, and have not been reprinted. The
complete Petrie collection was not issued until 1902-5 by
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford {q.v.).

White (P. F.), Mus.D. Legendary Balla,ds (Lon-
don). 1857.

Six numbers. Songs with titles such as Dreaming Norah,
The Nervous Irish Maid, Maurye Mavourneen, Song of the
Mermaid. Set to old airs. " Of no particular value. Out
of print. Dr. P. White (1795-1875) was a native of Co.
Waterford, and he arranged an Irish opera, " Comala."
He was a well-known lecturer on Irish Music, and got a
civil list pension."— (W.G.F.)

Levey (R. M.). The Dance Music of Ireland. 2 vols.
(London). 1858-73.

" Consisting of upwards of 100 national jigs, reels, horn-
pipes, etc. Arranged, with easy basses, for the piano (the
treble lino to suit violin or flute)." E.M.L. was director

IRISH MUSIC. 125

of music to the Theatre Royal and Leader of the Philhar-
monic and Ancient Concert Societies of Dublin. He says
in the preface to the 1st volume : — " The present collection
is but a portion of a mass of music obtained at different
intervals Huring 30 years of my life in various parts of
Ireland, and noted down chiefly from fiddlers and pipers."
Many, though not all, of these airs are here published for
the first time. He knows the date and the author of only
two of them, so old are they. " An excellent and popular
collection."— (G. O'N :) Eeprintod in 1903.

One Hundred Songs of Ireland. Pp. 64. (Boston : 0.
Ditson). 1859.
Music and words.

Ogden. Gems from Ould Ireland. London. 1860.

" An ephemeral selection, long since out of print." —
■ (W.G.P.)

Davidson's Musical Miracles. (London: Davidson).
1861.

120 Songs of Ireland. Music and words. " A fairly repre-
sentative collection of Anglo-Irish songs with music. It is
now scarce."— (W.G.F.)

Hughes (P. H.). Gems of the Emerald Isle. 1861.
(London: Blockley). 2s. 6d. nett.

Including a collection of ancient Irish jigs, country dances,
etc. 100 airs without words. One, two, or three bars
only of each air given, with accompaniment for piano.
Gives old name of air. Compiled " from the most
authentic sources." The 20th edition was published in
1880. Reprinted in 1907.

O'Brien (Arthur). Old Songs of Ireland. Pp. 94.
4to. (London: Boosey). 1865.

Collection of 50 songs and ballads with the original words
and music. Arranged and adapted by A. O'B. Author
of words rot always mentioned, but they are mostly well-
known songs by Moore, Griffin, Ogle, etc., such as Bells
of Shandon,, Kitty of Coleraine, Groves of Blarney, R6isin
Dubh, Garryowen, Girl I left behind me.

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^^MoLLOT (J. L.). Songs of Ireland. (Boosey.) [1873].
Enlarged edition by Hattoa (J. L.) and MoUoy. 1882.
(Boosey. 2s. 6d., paper, cover; 4s. cloth. (The Royal
Ed.). '" Comprising the most favourite of Moore's Irish
melodies and a large collection of old songs and ballads.
No comic. 78 of Moore's; 30 others. Popular in style."

* Joyce (P. W.) Ancient Irish Music. Pp. ix. + 104.
4to. (Gill). 3s. Fourth ed., 1890. New ed.,
1901.

100 airs never printed before. Harmonies by Prof. Glover.
An account of each tune is given. " A capital book for
the study of Irish folk music. Originally issued in 1873."
— (W.G.F.)

'''Joyce (P. W.). Irish Peasant Songs in the English
L'anguage. Crown 8vo. (Gill). 6d., paper.
The words set to the proper old Irish airs.

'"Hoffmann (Francis). Ancient Music of Ireland from
the Petrie Collection. Arranged for the Piano.
Pp. 138. (Dublin: Pigott). 1877.
Messrs. Pigott have recently published a new edition of
the above. "It is a musicianlv and sympathetic piece of
work."— (G. O'N.)

Counsel (Edward). Melodies of Erin. (Melbourne).
1889-91.
With piano aooompaniment. Words by Moore and others.

'"Leng (John & Co.), Dundee. The People's Irish
Songs. 2 parts. Id. each.

Words, tonic sol-fa and staff notation and simple accom-
paniment. Each part contains about 40 songs, well chosen
on the whole. Moore and Lover are best represented. No
stage-Irish comics except perhaps " Barney Brallaghan's
Courtship." Very good value.

Miles (Alfred H.). The Al Book of Irish and Welsh
Songs. (Simpkin). 8d.

50 songs (34 of them Irish) with new .symphonies and
accompaniments by J. T. Field. Words by Moore (chiefly),
Colman, Lee, Lysaght, Lover, Waller and others. All very
well known, ■'

IRISH MUSIC. 127

*GooDMAN (P.). The Irish Minstrel. (Gill.) B parts.
Each Id.

A collection of songs for use in Irish schools. Approved
by National Board. Tonic sol-fa. " Arrangements fairly
good."— (W.G.F.)

The School and Home Song Book. (Falconer). 1888.

Irish Choruses for Men's Voices. (Gill). Is. 6d. net.
1906.

*Graves (Alfred Percival) and Stanford (Sir Ch.
Villiers). Songs of Old Ireland. (Boosey). 5s.,
paper cover; 7b. 6d., cloth. [1882].

Selections from the Petrie Collection of 1857. 50 melodies.
Words by Graves, but founded on Celtic or Anglo-Irish
originals. A few of the songs are from Bunting and a few
from. Joyce.

*Graves (Alfred Percival) and Stanford (Sir Charles
Villiers). Irish Songs and Ballads. (Novello).
4s. [1893].

Selections from the Petrie Collection of 1857. Words by
Graves. Mostly country subjects, but contains Chieftain
of Tyrconnell, The Hero of Limerick, Sweet Isle, Arran-
more Boat-Song. " This takes rank among the very best
efforts to collect and arrange Irish airs in song form. There
is, however, some lack of simplicity and naturalness in the
accompaniments, and it cannot be said that the collection
has achieved a great popular success." — (G. O'N.)

*Graves (Alfred Percival). The Irish Song Book.
With Original Irish Airs. Eighth Impression.
(New Irish Library). (Unwin). Cloth, 2s. 1908.

120 melodies. " Some of these are excellent, but the col-
lection seems meant for English rather than for Irish
audiences." — (G. O'N.) Originally published in 1894.

*Graves and Wood (Charles). Irish Folk Songs.
(Boosey). 3s. 6d., paper cover. [1897].

"25 old Irish melodies hitherto comparatively unknown."
Words by Graves. Eight of the songs can also be had
separately, price 2s. each. These songs are taken from

128 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Banting, Petrie, Surenne, Joyce, and from a collection
of North of Ireland airs made by Miss Honoria Gallwey.
15 out of the 25 are derived from MS. sources or from
volumes long out of print. " Some charming items; but
Mr. Graves' words do not always ring quite true, and the
accompaniments do not always seem to grow naturally
from the tune."— (G. O'N.)

(.h.ovER (Professor J. W.). Ten Irish Songs. Music
4to. (Duily). Is. Current Catalogue.
Viz. :— Come to Glengarriff, Bells of Shandon, Hy Brasail,
Kale of Araglen, Emigrant's Song, Woods of Kylinoe, The
Exile, Banks of the Lee, Kate of Garnaville, The Peasant's
Bride.

RECENT COLLECTIONS.

■WToPFAT (Alfred). The Minstrelsy of Ireland.
(Augener). 6s., cloth; 4s., paper. [1897]. Srded.

206 Irish songs adapted to their traditional airs, arranged
for voice with piano accompaniment. " The best modern
collection of Anglo-Irish songs." — (W.G.F.) Supplemented
by historical notes on the airs. Words by Moore (chiefly),
Lover and many others. Songs of a national and patriotic
character are almost excluded. The historical notes are
scholarly, but need revision.. — (W.G.F.)

*iroFPAT (Alfred). 202 Gems of Irish Melody (without
Words). Pp. 80. Full Music size. (Bayley and
Ferguson). 2s.

Arranged for pi.nno, harmonium, or American organ. A
Collection of Irish Folk-music, consisting of songs — tradi-
tional and popular; reels; jigs; pipe airs, and other
measures. Includes a few of the airs used by Moore
among many others of various kinds, as also many tunes
from scarce 18th-ceritury printed books.

*M0PPAT (Alfred). Gems of Irish Song. (Bayley and
Ferguson). Paper, 2s. ; cloth, 3s. 6d. net.'
Edited and arranged with piano accompaniment, by A.M.
Voice part in' staff and tonic sol-fa. Formerly known
under the name of " Fifty Gems of Irish Song." But the

IRISH MUSIC. 129

book has been much enlarged. The whole volume has
been revised, the accompaniments re-written, and the
plates freshly engraved. A good selection, including songs
sentimental, humorous, and a few patriotic. No stage-
Irishism.

*MoFFAT (AlfreH). Six Irish Folk-Songs. (Augener).
Staff, Is. Tonic Sol-fa, 4d.

Arranged for three female voices — Viz. : The Angel's
Whisper; The Last Bose of Summer; Go where Glory
waits thee; In a Cradle Bright; Kitty of Coleraine; The
Minstrel Boy.

*MoFFAT (Alfred), J. J. Johnson, etc. Irish National
Songs. (Bayley & Ferguson). Is.

Nationalist songs with piano accompaniment. Tonic Sol-fa
and Staff.

A Nation once again (T. Davis).

Avenging and bright (Moore).

Battle eve of the Brigade, The (T. Davis).

Dear harp of my country (Moore).

Exile of Erin, The (Campbell).

Felons of our land. The ( ).

God save Ireland (T. D. Sullivan).

Green Flag, The (M. J. Barry).

Harp that once. The (Moore).

Irish Bapparees, The (C. Gavan Duffy).

Let Erin remember (Moore).

O'Donnell Aboo ( ).

Paddies Evermore (O'Hagan).

St. Patrick's Day ( ).

Shan Van Voght ( ).

The Wearin' o' the Green (Bouoicault).

The "West's asleep (T. Davis).

*Stanford (Sir C. Villiers). Songs of Erin. (Boosey).
5s., paper cover.

50 Irish folk-songs. Words by Alfred Perceval Graves.
Not all the words are Irish in subject, e.g., Marching to
Candahar, The Death of Gen. Wolfe, but the great majority
are Irish, for the most part sylvan and rural, but also
patriotic, e.g., Clare's Dragoons, O'Donnel's March, The
Songs Erin singsl See also under Graves.

130 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

^^Stanpord (Sir Charles Villiers). The Complete Petrie
Collection of Ancient Irish Music (1,582 Melodies).
Pp.426. (London: Boosey). 3 parts. 6s. each.
1902-1905.

Lacks Petrie's notes. No words, no piano arrangement.
Includes not only song-tunes, but jigs, reels, planxties, etc.
Petrie was collecting airs from his 17th to his 70th year
[died 1866] . Some he got from various friends, but the
bulk direct from the people in conjunction with O'Ourry.
" The collection is one of the first importance to all
students of folk melody, the airs being given just as they
were noted by Petrie." " One must deeply regret that the
editor's work has been done in a perfunctory fashion, no
helps or information given, and the mass of matter col-
lected by Petrie being left in a condition little better than
chaos."— (G. O'N.)

*Laoide (Eoghan). An Ctiuiciiie Pp. 21. (Gaelic
League). 2s. 6d, 1903.

Old Irish airs arranged for the harp or piano. 29 airs
with the original Irish titles. An interesting collection by
a good harpist — anglioe, Owen Lloyd.

Beethoven. Op. 223. 25 Irish Songs for 1 and 2 Voices,
with piano, flute, violin, 'cello. Op. 224. 20
Irish Songs. Op. 225. 12 Irish Songs.^

These are contained in " A Select Collection of original
Irish airs for the voice, united to characteristic English
poetry written for this work, with symphonies and accom-
paniments written by Beethoven, by Geo. Thomson, Edin,
Vol. I., 1814; Vol. IL, 1816.

*EooNEY (Hubert E.). The Well-known Songs of Ire-
land. 4to. (Duffy). 2s. 1904.

40 songs, with piano accompaniments, of various character
—patriotic, love, etc., mostly popular favourites. Words
by Lover, who is best represented, Walsh, etc. None of
Moore's. "A fairly good collection."— (W.G.F.) New
edition published in 1911.

iBreitkopf und Hartel, Leipzig, publish an edition of these
settings.

IBISH MUSIC. 131

*0'Neill (Gapt, Francis). The Music of Ireland.
Pp.365. Demy 4to. (Chicago: Lyon & Healy).
21. 1903.

1,850 melodies, airs, jigs, reels, hornpipes, etc., " many
of whioh are now published for the first time." Arranged
by James O'Neill. The melody alone is given.
N.B. — " The writer spent the first years of his life in
West Cork. Here he learned many of the tunes he has
included in this volume " (Preface). The rest were got
partly from various MS. collections given by friends, and
partly from the emigrant Irish in Chicago. "A most
valuable collection, although many of the settings are not
very pure."— (W. G. P.)

Goodman (P.). Irish Choruses. Pp. 115. Gill. Is.
and Is. 6d. 1906.

For men's voices (T.T.B.B.) 60 songs (10 in Irish). All
words under notes. No piano accompaniment. An admirable
selection. All the airs are Irish (old name of air and
source indicated wherever possible). The songs are very
varied in style and all thoroughly Irish in sentiment.

The Irish Minstrel. 3 parts. Id. each.

O'Neill (Capt. Francis). The Dance Music of Ireland,
1,001 Airs. (Chicago: Lyon & Healy). 1907.

" Captain Francis O'Neill has deserved well of Irish music
by his industry in collecting immense quantities of its
remains from itinerants and others in America. At the
same time, his work disregards scientific considerations,
his arrangements are amateurish, and his versions are of
all types, often far from the best." — (G. O'N.i)

*0'Neill (Capt. Francis). Irish Music for the Piano
or Violin. (Chicago: Lyon and Healy). 1908.

250 airs, jigs, reels, hornpipes, collected by Capt. F.
O'Neill, arranged by James O'Neill. No words. Care-
fully classified (a special feature of this collection). " Only
such as are rare, or known only to a limited extent and
not included in Moore's Melodies are printed in this
volume " (Pref.). " This is an interesting collection, but
the piano arrangement is not musicianly." — (W.G.F.)

132 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Valentine & Sons (Publishers). Songs of Ireland.
(Gem Selection). 1906. (Valentine & Sons, 44
William Street, Dublin. Head Office and Works :
Dundee). With piano accompaniments.

" An admirable selection, with historical notes." —
(W.G.F.)

*TouRS (B.). Old Ireland. (Novello). 8vo. 2s. 6d.
Vocal arrangements.

" A Collection of Ancient Irish Melodies." The words by
Jane Mulooh. The Royal Irish (At Tel-el-Kebir), Old
Friends, Kathleen Asthore, My Home Ruler, Mary, thy
laugh was sweet. The high-born Orphan. " Musioianly,
but not characteristic." — (W.G.F.)

^'O'Neill (Padraig MacAodh). Songs of Uladh.
Pp. 58. Folio. (Maunsel). Is. 6d.

Collected and arranged by P. O'N., with ballads and folk-
notes by Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil. Drawings and designs
by Seaghan MacC.

*Fox (Mrs. C. Milligan). Songs of Irish Harpers.
Pp. 68. Royal 4to. (Bay ley & Ferguson). 4s.
net.

Collected and arranged for harp or piano by C.M.F.
My thousand times beloved; Golden looks are my
delight; The Parting of Friends; Men of Connaught;
Moorlough Mary; Sorrow of Sorrows; The red
haired girl; The Gates of Dreamland; The Foggy
Dew; The Thresher; Dear Dark Head; Pastheen
Fionn; Farewell, my gentle Harp.
The songs printed in this book are collected from various
sources, some now appearing in print for the first time.
They are choice specimens of the most characteristic Irish
melody, and are most sympathetically treated in arrange-
ment. At a Bardic Concert in Londonderry House, Park
Lane, London, on June 24, 1910, the songs were effectively
introduced. The Times, in an appreciative notice, calls
attention to several of the songs, saying of them that
" they are quite of the first quality."

IRISH MUSIC. 133

*HuGHEs (Herbert). • Irish Country Songs. (Boosey).
3s. 6d., paper cover. 1909.

Edited, arranged, and for the most part collected by H.H.
The verdant Braes of Skreen; Reynardine; The Weaver's

Daughter; "When through Life unblest we rove;

The next Market Day; My Love, oh she is my Love;

I know where I'm goin'; Slow by the Shadows;

The Little Rose of Gartan; A Ballynure Ballad;

Down by the Sally Gardens ; The Bonny wee Mare ;

She moved through - the Fair ; You oouldn 't stop a

Lover (Fragment) ; An Island Spinning Song ; The

Fanaid Grove ; " B " for Barney (Fragment) ; The

Lover's Curse; I wish I had the Shepherd's Lamb;

Must I go bound; I know my Love; The Gartan

Mother's Lullaby.
" A very interesting selection of folk-songs, but the accom-
paniments overload the melody, and are frankly modern."
— (W.G.F.)

* Joyce (P. W.). Old Irish Folk-Music and Songs.
Pp. xxii. -1-408. 4to. (Hodges & Figgis). 10s. 6d.
net. 1909.1

842 airs and songs " hitherto unpublished." This latter
statement on the title-page is explained and slightly
modified in the Preface, e.g., in Part II. he reprints a few
airs out of his two previous collections, " Ancient Irish
Music " and " Irish Peasant Songs, in English." Part I.
371 airs without words. Part II. Irish folk songs in the
English language with the words set to the proper old Irish
airs. Part III. The Forde Collection. Part IV. The Pigot
Collection : III. and IV. were gathered between 1840 and
1850. " I spent all my early life in a part of Co. Limerick
[Glenosheen in the heart of the Ballyhoura Mountains]
where music, singing, and dancing were favourite amuse-
ments " (Preface). In later life he used to go among the
people during vacations patiently gathering the old airs.
No piano accompaniment. " A really good collection of
Irish folk music."— (W.G.F.)

MooBE (Thomas). Irish Melodies. With Symphonies
and Accompaniements by Sir John Stephenson,
Mus. Doc, and the Harmonised Airs arranged for
two, three, and four voices. Edited by Professor

^See also under Collections, p. 136.

134 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Glover. In this Edition the words of all the verses
are accompanied by the Music, with the Pianoforte
part in full. In one Volume. Full Music size.
Bound in green cloth, extra gilt. (Duily). 7s. 6d.

The new Grattan-Flood edition — issued in 1910 — lias an
Introduction giving the genesis of the Melodies, also
refuting the statements of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.

N.B. — It has been thought well to place the modern

editions of Moore's Melodies among recent collections as

new editions are constantly appearing, and even at the

present day no Irish airs are heard so frequently.

Moore's Melodies. Sir John Stevenson and Sir

Henry Bishop. (Gill). 3s. 6d., etc. [Original ed.,
1859]. New ed., 1905.

Piano accompaniment. A fairly good edition. None of
the Melodies are omitted. Sir John Stevenson had the
advantage of working under Moore's own superintendence,
" but his work is, unhappily, not satisfactory from any
point of view, for, apart from question of accuracy and
antiquarian knowledge, his settings are sometimes ill-
judged, and his accompaniments thin." — (G. O'N.)

* Moore's Irish Melodies. (Novello). 2s. 6d., 8vo.

paper; 4s., Svo. cloth; 16s., folio; single folio, 6d.;
Bvo, Id.

52 of the melodies harmonized as vocal quartets, by M.
W. Balfe.

* Moore's Irish Melodies. (Novello). Is., Bvo. ; or

separately, 6d.

13 of the melodies arranged as duets (S. & T.), by M.
W. Balfe. 7 of the melodies can be had arranged as
duets (S. & G.) for Is., or separately, 6d.

Moore's Irish Melodies. (Novello). Folio cloth,

21s

Symphonies and accompaniments by M. W. Balfe. Con-
taining 83 of the most popular; also 20 arranged as duets.
Ditto, solos only, Svo paper, 2s. 6d. ; cloth, 4s. "A few
of the choral arrangements are really good." (W.G.F.)

IRISH MUSIC. 135

— Moore's Irish Melodies. (Boosey). Bs., paper
cover.

The original airs restored and arranged for the voice with
piano accompaniments, by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.
" There is scarcely a melody," says Sir C. S. in Preface,
" which Moore left unaltered." The editor's aim has been
to restore these airs to the original form as noted by Petrie
and Bunting. He omits some of the melodies as not fieing
Irish at all, e.g., Eveleen's Bower, Believe me if all, etc..
By that lake . . ., Oh, the Shamrock. The accom-
paniment is frankly modem. Sir Charles' " restorations "
and animadversions upon Moore have been vigorously
contested^.

* Walsh (William). Irish Tunes for the Scottish and
Irish War Pipes. (Edinburgh: David Glen).
2s. net. 1911.

Airs arranged .'by David Glen. "A poor collection, with
unintelligible titles. "— (W. G.F.)

*The Irish Tonic Solfaist. Pp. 72. (London : Curwen,
Dublin: Gill). 6d.

A course of graded exercises on the tonic sol-fa method
of teaching to sing. Edited, on the plan of Mr. Curwen 's
" Standard Course of Lessons," by a priest of St. Vincent's
College, Castleknock (near Dublin), for the use of Catholic
Schools. No part-songs.2 88 pieces in all. Harmonised
and arranged by editor. Many Irish pieces. In many
cases editor supplies words which, he says in preface, " are
simply temporary expedients to render available for con-
vent and college classes beautiful melodies which could not
well be introduced with the words to which they are
ordinarily sung." But the editor's words are certainly not
without merit. The Great Masters are also drawn upon —
Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Weber, Gounod, etc. Appendix
I. Application of Tonic S.-F. to Staff. II. Application of
same to Gregorian music.
'Messrs. Chappell publish an album containing 24 of the
melodies.

*But the editor promises a supplement consisting of a selec-
tion of suitable standard pieces for 3 or more voices. It will
be in 3 separate parts to suit (1) mixed voice classes; (2) men's
classes; (3) ladies' and children's classes.

136 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

^•^Erin Song Book. Pp.32. Sq. 12nio. (Curwen). Id.

4tli ed. revised.

On Tonic S.-F. notation. Introductory exercises to suit
Irish education regulations, with graded songs in two parts,
and staff notation exercises. Many of the songs are Irish
in subject and sentiment, though not " patriotic." Words
cliiefly by Nimmo Christie. Music arranged by various
composers. Nicely printed.

COLLECTIONS OF SONGS IN IRISH.

* Joyce (P. W.) . Irish Music and Song. Pp. \-i. + 44.
(Gill). 2s. 1888.

Published for Society for Preservation of Irish Language.
Claims (Pref.) to be the first of its kind ever published, for
"in no case [hitherto] have the Gaelic Songs been set to
the music, the syllables under the notes." Twenty Gaelic
Songs, with translations (Walsh, Mangan, etc.) and notes
on the origin, etc., of each air. No accompaniment. " A
very useful little collection for Irish singers in the native
tongue." (W.G.F.)

*Clandil,lon (Maighread Ni Annagain and Seamus
Clanndioluin). An ton'ouB (Gaelic Leaguel. Is.
1904.

Traditional Songs, with music in Tonic Sol-fa and StafE.
" An interesting collection of twelve Irish songs, but the
versions are not very pure, and at least one is incorrectly
noted." (W.G.F.)

*Hardebeck (Carl G.). Ceatha Ceoil. (Gaelic League).
7 parts. 2d. each.

Popular Songs in Irish, with piano accompaniment. " The
airs are not good versions, and the accompaniments are
not in the best taste." (W.G.F.)

^O'SuiLLEABHAix (Padraig). Ceileabhar Ceoil. (Gaelic
League). 5 Songs. Id. each.

Popular Songs in Irish, harmonised in four parts for
choirs. StafE and Tonic Sol-fa. Amateurish.

IRISH MUSIC. ■ 137

*Patteeson (Annie W.)- Six Original Gaelic Songs.
(Boosey). 2s. 6d. Paper cover.
" Deserve praise." (G. O'N.)

'^■Rogers (Brendan). Breanndain Mhag Ruaidhri and
Seosamh Laoide. ClAiffeAt tiA ngAeibeAt (Gaelic
League).

Songs in Irish, with Staff and Tonic Sol-fa notations.
Four parts. Sd. each. 10 or 12 songs to each part.
" Many of these deserve wide popularity." — (G. O'N.)

"^Walsh (Revd. P.). CnuAf^Cc be^.g ■Arh)Un 6 parts.
(Browne & Nolan). Id. each. Dublin. 1904-
1908.

About a dozen songs in each part. Tonic Sol-fa only.
They are being re-issued under the title, Fuinn na Sm61.
" An excellent traditional collection. A few of the airs
not found elsewhere." (W.G.F.)

t)ot5 An cSolAtoip by pingin tiA l-exMfinA (Dublin : The
Gaelic League).
A collection of old songs from Co. Kerry.

*0'DwiER, Robert (Riobard Duibhir). Arhri^iti An
OifBAbcAip (Gaelic League). 8 numbers. 3d.
each.

Songs in Irish, harmonised in four parts. One song in each
number. " These are the work of a cultivated musician,
and deserve the widest popularity." — (G. O'N.)

By the Same. Eithne. Irish Opera.

See in the Section " Irish Plays."

Produced in 1909. " Many of the numbers display un-
common genius, but, as a whole, the work is uneven."
(W.G.F.)

SOME SCOTTISH COLLECTIONS.

Let my excuse for inserting these collections be the following
words of 'Donovan : — " The present language of the Highlands
passed from Ireland into the Highlands about A.D. 604; and
a regular intercoiarse has ever since been kept up between

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both countiies, the literature and music of the one having been
over since those of the other." As to the debt Scotland owed
to Irish musicians in various centuries, see Flood's " History
of Irish Music."

Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion. 12 books.
1743-64.

MacDonald's Collection of Highland Airs. 1784.

The Musical Miscellany. (Perth). 1786. New and
enlarged edition in 1788, under title " Calliope."
With English, Scotch, and Irish Songs.

Aird's Selection. (Glasgow). 6 vols. 1782-99.

The Edinburgh Musical Miscellany. 1792-3.

Thomson's Four Sets of Scottish Airs. 1793-9.

The Scot's Musical Museum. 6 vols. (Edinburgli :
James Johnson). 1787-1803.

Eraser's Highland Airs. 1815.

Campbell's Albyn's Anthology. 1816-8.

600 melodies, including many Irish airs. To this collection
Robert Burns contributed more than 150 songs.

Macdonald (Keith Norman), M.D. The Gesto Collec-
tion of Highland Music. (Stirling: Eneas
Mackey). 15s. 1895. Piano, violin, bagpipe,
etc.

This is a fine collection of Scotch pipe music, including
songs, pibrochs, and laments, marches, dance tunes, etc.,
in all about 335 tunes. A second edition was published
in 1898. '^

Whitehead. (Fr. W.), A.R.C.O. Songs of the High-
lands. (Stirling: Eneas Mackey). 15s.net.
GaeUc and English words. Translations by Malcolm
MacFarlane and others. Arranged with symphonies and
accompaniments for the pianoforte by Pr. W. "Whitehead.
Fifty songs in all.

IKISH MUSIC. 139

Maoleod (Malcolm C), ed. Modern [Scottish] Gaelic
Bards. Demy 8vo. Pp. 2B6. Illustrated. (Stir-
ling: Mackey). 5s. 1908.

Contains a large and varied selection of Gaelic poems,
songs, and melodies, together with a dozen biographical
sketches of well-known modern bards.

Mackenzie (John). The Beauties of Gaelic Poetry
and Lives of the Highland Bards. (Edinburgh :
John Grant). 1907. Historical Introduction.
Pp. 70. By John Grant.

MacBean (Lachlan). Songs and Hymns of the Gael.
4to. (Stirling: Eneas Mackey). 3s. 6d. 1900.

Contents. — Part I., Secular Songs; Part II., Sacred Songs;
Part III., Gaelic Psalmody. Introductory chapter and
not-es. Songs in both English and Gaelic. Music both in
Sol-fa and Stafi notation. Many of the melodies are not
to be found elsewhere.

MaoFarlane (Malcolm). Binneas nam Bard (Bardic
Melody). (Stirling : Eneas Mackey). 1907.

Issued in 9 parts of 96 pp. each. 2s. 6d. net each. These
form 3 vols, the last of which contains an Appendix with
notes on the songs and tunes and an essay on Gaelic
music. Music in both Sol-fa and Staff notations. Of
special value to students of Scotch Gaelic music.

Kerb's Collection of Reels and Strathspeys, etc. (Stir-
ling: Mackey). 2s.

Morrison's Highland Airs and Quicksteps. (Stirling :
Mackey). 2s. 6d.

*KENNEDr-FRASEB (Marjoi'y). Songs of the Hebrides.
(Boosey). £1 Is. In handsome binding. And
other Celtic Songs (44 in all) from the Highlands
of Scotland. Some collected and all arranged for
Voice and Piano by M. K.-F. Gaelic ed., Kenneth
MacLeod.

Miss Keimedy was one of a gifted family who went on
tour singing and playing Scotch musie.

140 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

Inverness Collection of Gaelic Songs. (With English
Translations). By Prof. Blackie, Nether Locka-
ber, Norman MacLeod and others. (Stirling:
Eneas Mackey).
Very popular. Over 10,000 copies sold.

Eraser. Captain Eraser's Collection of Highland Airs
and Melodies. (Stirling: Eneas Mackey). 13s. 6d.
Arranged for piano or violin.

Inverness Collection of Highland Pibrochs, Laments,
Quicksteps, and Marches. (Stirling: Eneas
Mackey). 7s. 6d.

A' Choisir-Chiul : The St. Columba Collection of Gaelic
Songs. Pp.64:. 4to. (Paisley : Parlane). n.d.

Forty songs. No English given. Music arranged for part-
singing.

Celtic Lyre. A Collection of Gaelic Songs. With
English Translations. Edited by Fionn.

This delightful volume contains the words and music (in
Staff and Sol-fa Notation) of sixty -eight of our choicest
Highland melodies. Each song has an excellent English
translation, which can be sung to the original music. The
ooUection includes love songs, laments, inarching songs,
boat songs, war songs, etc., cloth, gilt title. 3s. 6d. net.

The Songs, Hymns, and Psalms of the Scottish High-
lands. With Translations and Music, and an
Introduction by L. MacBean. Limited edition.
4to. Cloth, 5s. 6d.

Killin Collection of Highland ilusic. Gaelic Songs,
with the Music, collected and arranged, with a
Translation in English, and Historical and Criti-
cal Notes of each Song, by Charles Stewart, of
Killin. The Harmonies and Accompaniments in
both Notations by James Merryles. Royal 4to.

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Cloth gilt, gilt tops, as new. 10s. 6d. (McLach-
lan & Stewart). 1884.

The collection comprises love songs, dairymaids' songs,
Jacobite songs, songs of the Macgregors, Descriptive Songs,
ancient Gaelic chants, songs by the late Dr. John Maeleod,
morven, and hymns.

Songs of the Highlands. With Gaelic and English
words arranged with Syinphonies and Pianoforte
Accompaniments, Staff and Sol-fa Notation. Full
mu'sac folio size. 50 of the best Gaelic Songs
bound in one volume. Cloth, 15s. nett. Bound
in Tartan, 21s. net.

Lays of the Heather. A Collection of Songs and Bal-
lads illustrative of the Poetry and Music of the
Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, carefully
selected from the various authentic sources and
arranged with Symphonies and Accompaniments
for Voice and Pianoforte.

The Highland Songs are taken from " The Inverness
Collection of Gaelic Songs." There are 34 other Popular
Scottish Songs, including M'Crimmon's Lament, with new
arrangements of Sir Walter Scott's " Lady of the Lake "
and " Lord of the Isles," etc., handsomely bound, cloth,
gilt, royal quarto. 12s. 6d. net. Postage 6d.

II. — Original Compositions.^

(a) INSTBUMENTAL.

Beethoven's 7th Symphony is sometimes known as the
Irish Symphony. The theme of the finale is taken
from " Nora Criona."

*2[endelssohn. Fantasia on "The Last Rose." Op. 15.
(Litolf Edition: Enoch & Sons, London). In Vol.
I. of his Complete Compositions. Price 2s. 6d.

^A few of the items included in this section have not very
good claims to originality; but they are placed here for con-
venience, since they would not be easily found under the heading
Collections,

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Wallace (W. Vincent). Favorite Irish Melodies. (New-
York: W. Hall).

Arranged with introduction and variations for piano.
1. Oh leave me to my sorrow. 2. The soldier's greeting.
3. Go where glory waits thee and Love's young dream.
5. The bard's legacy. 6. My lodging is on the cold ground.

Berlioz (Hector). Arranged several Irish Airs, to be
found in Breitkopf & Hartel's Edition of this great
master.

As is well known, Berlioz married an Irish actress, Harriet
Smithson, of Ennis, Co. Clare.

Field (John). Arranged two Irish Airs.

Field was a Dublin man, and was the inventor of the
Nocturne. He was an incomparable pianist.

*Sullivan (Sir Arthur), Symphony in E. (The Irish
Symphony). (Novello). (In the Press).
Originally produced at the Crystal Palace, London, in
March, 1866. Has an L-ish flavour, and is thoroughly
musioianly. Well merits a revival. Sullivan's father and
mother were Irish of the " old stock." — (W.G.F.)

'•'Moppat (Alfred). Fantaisie on Irish Melodies for
Violin and Piano. (Augener).

Introduces " The Coulin," " Garryowen," " Single Jig,"
"Last Rose," "Top of Cork Road." "Can be recom-
mended. Sound musicianship." — (W.G.F.)

Glover (J. W.). St. Patrick at Tara. Pp. 155. 4to.
1873. (London: D. Davison). n.J.

National oratorio with words from Ossian, Moore, Mangan,
etc.

Erin's Matin Song (Cantata), 1873.

One Hundred Years Ago (Ode to Moore), 1879.

The Deserted Village (Opera), 1880.
Music considered decidedly amateurish.
Glover— generally known as Professor Glover— was
organist of Marlborough Street Pro -Cathedral, Dublin, from
1848 to 1885. He died in 1899. His grandson, " Jimmy "
Glover, is Musical Director of Drury Lane Theatre.

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Spohr (Louis). Potpourri (A min.) on Irish Airs for
Violin and Orchestra. Op. B9. (Leipzig : Breit-
kopf und Hartel).

No need to dilate on the beauty of this glorious composition
by one of th© great masters of the orchestra. — (W.6.F.)

■■■Hardebeck (Carl). The Red Hand of Ulster. (Bay ley
and Ferguson). Is. 6d. net.

" A romantic legend of Ulster. Powerful, impassioned
solos and picturesque choruses, occupying about one hour
in performance " (adv.).

•'■Stanford (Sir 0. Villiers). Irish Symphony in F
Minor. (Novello). Full score, 30s.; 1st violin,
2s. 6d. ; 2nd violin, 2s. 6d. ; viola, 2s. 6d. ; 'cello and
double bass, 3s. 6d. ; wind parts, 22s. 6d.

" This is the work of an accomplished musician, and will
command the admiration of competent judges. Its diffi-
culty, however, and some occasional languor of inspiration,
will prevent its being frequently heard by popular
audiences."— (G. O'N.)

*Stanpoed (G. Villiers). An Irish Idyll in Six Minia-
tures. (Boosey). 4s. each. 2 eds., for high and
low voices. Words by " Moira O'Neill " (Songs
of Glens of Antrim). Written for and sung by
Mr. Plunket Greene.

" Words and music of some of these have much beauty." —
(G. O'N.)

Holmes (Augusta). Irlande. Symphonic Poem.

Originally produced in 1882. Eevised for the Irish Pels
Cecil in 1897. Miss Holmes was a creative artist of the
first rank, and a worthy pupil of the great Cesar Faruck.
She died in 1903.

'■'Haakman (J. Jacques). Fantasia on Irish Airs.
(Gary). 2s. 6d. net.

*McKenzie (D. G.). Fantaisie Irlandaise. (Gary).
5s.
Brilliant concert solo on Irish airs. (Violin and Piano.)

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* Wallace (W, Vincent). Melodie Irlandaise. (Auge-
ner). Folio. Is.

" This Irish -bom composer composed numerous pianoforte
fantasias, of which some are built on Irish melodies."

'■'O'Neill (Norman). Variations on an Irish Theme.
(Augener).

For two pianos, 4 hands. " Mr. Norman O'Neill is a
musician of exceptional and cultured gifts. It reinains to
be seen how far he will achieve success in the field of
Irish music."— (G. O'N.)

Thalbbrg (S.). Airs Irlandais Varies pour le piano.
Op. 57, No. 10. (Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel).

"Difficult, yet, on the whole, commonplace in character;
these pieces, once widely known, are no longer felt to repay
the trouble of study."— (G. O'N.)

Irish Fantasia. 1858.

Collison (W. A. Houston). The Game of Chess. Can-
tata. 1900. Samhain. Cantata. 1902.

These Cantatas were written respectively for the Feis
Ceoil of ]900 and 1902, and are published by Messrs.
Weekes and Co., 14 Hanover Street, London.

Irish Suite in E Minor.

Prize Irish Suite at Feis Ceoil of 1903. Published by
Williams and Co., 32 Great Portland Street, London.
The Cantatas and Suite are musioianly.

*EsposiTo (Michele). Two Melodies for Violin and
Piano. (Augener). 1895. " Farewell, but when-
ever " and " The Silver Tip." Eoseen Dhu. Irish
Vocal Suite. (Dublin: Pigott). 2s. Deirdre.
Cantata. 1897. The Postbag. Operetta. 1902.

"Dr. Esposito's arrangements are thoroughly musicianly,
but fairly difficult." (W.G.P.)

*Seymour (Joseph). Irish May Day. (Curwen.
Unison Operetta. Sol-fa, 6d.; Staff, Is. & 6d.
Words, Id.

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Pelissier (W. Harvey). Connla of the Golden Hair.
(Curwen). 2s. 6d. 1903.

An Opera founded on a legend of the Irish heroic period.
Prize work at the Feis Cecil, 1903.

Butler (O'Brien). Muirgheis. An Irish Opera Bochsa
(R.N.C.). Reliques Irlandaises. 1837.

(b) VOCAL.

^Handel. The Poor Irish Lad. (Novello). 2s.

The words, symphonies, and accompaniment by W. H.

Cummings. The melody from an autograph MS.

An Irish air tnken down by Handel when in Ireland in

1742.

RiTTER (Frederic Louis). 10 Irish Melodies. Folio.
New York. 1875.
Bitter died at Antwerp in 1891.

Stewart (Sir Robert), Mus.D.

Numerous choruses and part songs, published by Novello,
also by Curwen. His arrangement of " The Wine Cup is
Circling " is very popular. Widely esteemed as an
organist, composer, and lecturer. He edited the Church
of Ireland Hymnal. His memory is still green as an
admirable extempore performer, and as having raised the
standard of musical degrees in Dublin University. A
statue of him has been erected in Leinster Lawn, beside
the Gallery of National Art.

Stage (Mrs.). Erin's Harp.

Ten numbers appeared. Airs by herself.

^''Greaven (Revd. A.). A Cj'cle of Irish Songs. (Duffy).
Wrapper, Is. net. Cloth, 2s.
" Of no particular interest." W. H. G.

*CoLLisoN (W. A. Houston), Mus.Doc. A Kerry
Courting. (Boosey). 3s. Paper cover.
Irish song cycle for four solo voices (S.jV.T.B.). Words by
Percy French.

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*I-lABTi' (Hamilton). Six Songs of Ireland. (Boosey).
4s. Paper cover.

Lobkin' Back. Words by Moira O'Neill.

Dreaming. Words by Cahir Healy.

Lullaby. Words by Cabal O 'Byrne.

Grace for Light. Words by Moira O'Neill.

Flame in the Skies. Words by Lizzie Twigg.

At Sea. Words by Moira O'Neill.

" This is a really gifted composer. If not invariably

attractive, his work is never commonplace." — (G. O'N.)

'■'Harty (Hamilton). Three Traditional Ulster Airs.
(Boosey). 2s. 6d. each. Paper cover.

Viz., Blue Hills of Antrim, My Lagan Love, Black Sheela
of the Silver Eye. Words by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil.
Two settings : No. 1, Low Voice. No. 2, High Voice.

*L6nR (Hemiann). Four Irish Lyrics. (Pigott). 4s.

'Wox (Mrs. C. Milligan. Four Irish Songs. Size, lOJ
X 7J. (Maunsel). Is. 6d. Irish linen.

Words by Edith Wheeler and Alice Milligan. The Con-
nacht Caoine, by Tadhg O'Donnchadha. Illustrated by
Seaghan MacCathmhaoil.

Robinson (Joseph).

Arranged 59 of most popular Irish melodies, and 12 classical
songs. Also in three books the Montinino Sight Singing
Exercises. He was a noted teacher of singing and con-
ductor. Dublin : Cramer, Wood and Co.

■'•Needham (A. A.). Four Irish Ballads. (Novello).
Each, 2s.

1. Maureen (in P and A flat). 2. The Maid of Garryowen.
3. The Irish Reel. 4. Lonesome.

''By Same. Four Lyrics. (Novello), Each, 2s.

1. Irish Lullaby (in D flat, E, E flat). 2. Lorna Doone's
Song. 3. O Mistress Mine. 4. Pastheen Fionn,

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By Same. Your Father's Boreen, Humorous.
(Novello). 2s.

No. 1, in E flat; 2, in D minor; 3, in C.
' ' Mrs. Needham is a gifted musician, with a very ready
pen. She has done a great deal to popularise Irish musio
with the educated public." — (G. O'N.)

*]SrEBDHAM (A. A.). A Bunch of Shamrocks. (Boosey.
Bs.

Irish Song cycle for 4 solo voices (S.A.T.B.).

God of this Irish Isle. Words by Thomas d'Arcy McGee.
Killiney far away. Words by Francis A. Pahy.
The little red Lark. Words by Katherine Tynan-Hinkson.
Your Father's Boreen. Words by Anon.
My dark Rosaleen. Words by James Clarence Mangan.
' Pictures of Ireland. Words by Joseph Clarke.

The Woman of Three Cows. Words by James Clarence

Mangan.
The Sweet of the Year. Words by Katherine Tynan-
Hinkson.
Peace be around Thee. Words by Thomas Moore.
The Stile in the Lane. Words by Francis A. Fahy.
Fan Fitzger'l. Words by Alfred Perceval Graves.
Salutation to the Celts. Words by Thomas d'Arcy
McGee.
Of these " My dark Rosaleen " is probably the best, and
will likely outlive the others.

*STOCKriAusEN. Six Irish Folk Songs. (Pigott). 2s.
For two medium voices.

Irish Folk Songs for a Medium Voice. 3 Vols. Eng-
lish and German Words. (Breitkopf und Hartel).
2s. 2d.

O'Neill (Revd. G.), S.J. Hymns to St. Patrick and
St. Brigid. (Dublin: Cramer & Pohlmann).

Set to ancient Irish airs. Irish and English words. Price
2d. eachj These Hymns have already secured wide
popularity : they will supply a want which had long been
felt.

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Flood (Dr. W. H. Grattan). Songs by.

The Dear Homeland.

Our fond ones far away.

The Land for the People.

Connaoht.

My Bonnie Brown Girl.

Mona dhuit a tir ar nduthohais.

The Fair-Haired Maid, etc.
Dr. W. H. G. Flood's services to Irish music are (we trust)
too well known to need recapitulation here. The acknow-
ledged quality of them by the Royal University of Ireland
with an honorary " Mus. Doc." degree was received with
great general satisfaction.

III. — Items from Publishers' Catalogues
(Sheet Music).

*PIGOTT & CO.

Some samples of Irish sheet music to be had at the present
day :—

1.— INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.

(a) Piano Solos.

Avenging and Bright (Is. 2d.), arr. Esposilo.

Come back to Erin (Is. 6d.), Kuhe.

The Coulin (Is. 6d.), arr. M. Esposito.

Irish Airs (Is. 6d.), Kuhe.

Reminiscences of Ireland (Is. 6d.), Godfrey.

Wearin' of the Green (6d. and Is. 2d.), Smallwood.

Do. (Is. 6d.), Kuhe.

Echoes from the Green Isle (Is. 6d.), Rockstro.
Gems from the Emerald Isle (Is. 6d.), Rockstro.
Harp that once (Is. 6d.), "Wright.
The Shamrock (Is. 6d.), Pridham.
St. Patrick's Day (Is. 6d.), B. Richards.

(b) Piano Duets.
Echoes from the Green Isle (Is. 6d.), Rockstro.
Irish Diamonds (6 parts, Is. lid. each), Pape.
Reminiscences of Ireland (Is. lid.), Godfrey.
Whispers from Erin (Is. lid.), Harvey.

Do. (Is. lid.), Rockstro.

Ireland (Is. 2d.), Gantier.
St. Patrick's Day (Is. 6d.), Richards.
Killarney (Is. 6d.), B. Smith.
Irish Airs (Is. lid.), Kuhe.

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(c) Dance Music.

Apart from tho collections noted above, there are more
than a dozen sets of Quadrilles based on Irish airs.

(d) Violin.

Erin's Wreath. A selection of the most admired Irish airs for
the violin, with (ad lib.) aocomp. for piano, 2nd violin,
viola, 'cello, flute, clarionet, and cornet. 25 numbers,
Is. 6d. each, complete. 5 airs in each number.

Garryowen (Grand Fantasia), 2s. 8d.

Six Irish " Fantasies Mignonnes." 3 numbers. Is. 8d. each.
2 airs in each.

2.— VOCAL MUSIC.
There are innumerable Anglo-Irish songs with names like
Asthore, Acushla, Avourneen, Mavourneen Mine, Sweet Vale of
Avoca, The Vales of Arklow, and so on, many of which are
excellent in their way. There are national songs, chiefly
arranged by J. J. Johnson : — The Banner of Green, Castlebar,
The Boys of Wexford, The Croppy Boy, Who Fears to
Speak . . . , There's No Land Like Ireland, etc. There
are excellent comic songs (sometimes in the covers not, happily,
illustrated) by Percy French. The only songs in this list
approaching the objectionable " Stage Irish " type are some
eight or nine by W. J. Ashcroft. There are songs by Esposito,
Val Vousden (old favourites), Harvey, etc.

*CRAMER WOOD & CO.

By Sir FraJicis Brady. — Erin's Isle, Is.' 6d.; Erin's Welcome,
Is. 6d. ; Come back to Erin (4-part song). " Ephemeral
productions, and rather amateurish " (W.G.F.).

By Aynsley Fox. — ^When shall the day break in Erin? Is. 6d.

By Robert Martin. — Ballybough Bridge Brigade, Vagrants of
Erin, Ballyhooley, Killaloe, MulUngar. The last three
are pubished in London. Comics of a style that was once
popular.

By Hubert Rooney. — A Memory, Dear Land, Is. 6d. each.

The following music- books were formerly published by Messrs.
CAMERON & FERGUSON of Glasgow :—

Sixty Irish Songs : Words and Music. Arr. for Concertina. 6d.
The" Green Flag of Ireland National Songs : Words and Music.

Arranged for Concertina. 6d.
One Hundred Irish Airs (no words). Arr. for Concertina. 6d.

(Adams Sixpenny Instrumental Series.)
One Hundred Irish Airs (no words). Arr. for Flute. 6d.
One Hundred Irish Airs (no words). Arr. for Violin. 6d.

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Irish Songs, Airs and Dances. Arr. for Melodeon. 6cl.
In Excelsior Series. Fifty-eight Irish Melodies; full Music size,
pp.24. Is.
" These publications were of no particular value." — ^W.G.P.

GILL AND SON'S " SONG BOOKS."
Contain no Music.

*CHAPPELL & CO.'S Catalogue of Vocal Music contains
many songs more or less Irish in subject. The composers' names
are in brackets. Colleen Rue (Allitsen), My White Rose of Kil-
larney (Aylward), The Irish Emigrant and The Irish Peasant
(Barker), A Elower from Erin (Brady), Wearing of the Green,
new version (Boulton), Oh, Bay of Dublin (Lady DufEerin),
Bridget Brady (Milligan Fox), An Irish Love-song (Harty), An
Irish Proposal (Kane), My Molly Asthore (Laveun), Four Irish
Lyrics (Hermann Lohr), and four or five others by the same,
Barney O'Hea and Paddy Blake's Echo (Lover), The Lake Isle
of Innisfree (Peel), Snowy -breasted Pearl (Robinson), On the
Road to Tipperary (Stuart), Irish Eyes and Ould Doctor Mack
(Stanford).

*BAYLEY AND FERGUSON.

1. — Among their Humorous Part Songs are several Irish items,
e.g., Barney O'Hea, The Widow Malone, Rory O'More,
St. Patrick was a Gentleman, The Cruiskeen Lawn, and
several others. Price, 2d. or 3d. Staff, Id. Sol-fa.

2. — Glees and Part Songs (S.A.T.B.). This section contains
over 30 Irish songs, including many of the best : —
Savourneen Deelish, Terence's Farewell, Molly Bawn,
Let Erin Remember, Believe me if all . . ., The
Coulin, Come back to Erin, The Whistling Thief, and so
on. Price, 2d. or 3d. Staff, Id. Sol-fa.

3. — Vocal Fantasias. — Irish Songs arr. by John Bell. — Intro-
ducing St. Patrick's Day, Wearing of the Green, The
Bould Sojer Boy, A Place in thy Memory, and. St. Patrick
was a Gentleman.

4. — Male Voice Music. — Part Songs. — 8 or 10 items, including
The Snowy Breasted Pearl, Oft in the Stilly Night, Last
Rose, Killarney, Meeting of the Waters.

*Messrs. BROWNE & NOLAN publish a series of " Choruses
for Choral Classes and School Choirs." There are 13 songs in the
series, sold at Id. or IJd. each. They are mostly arranged for
four mixed voices; Tonic Sol-fa or Staff. Three are in Irish,
most of the others are Irish in subject.

Also an Irish Song Book, Tonic Sol-fa. In six parts, Id. each.
( See Walsh, Rev. Patrick.)

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*NOVELLO.

Irish Airs and Folk Songs for mixed voices (S.A.T.B.) with
or without acoomp. ad lib. : —
After the Battle (arranged by T. R. Joze), 2d.
Arranmoro Boat Song (arranged T. R. Joze), 4d. ; Sol-fa, IJd.
Battle Song (arranged by T. R. Joz6), 3d.; Sol-fa, Id.
Capture of Cremona, The (arranged by T. R. Joze), 3d. ; Sol-fa, Id.
Cruiskeen Lawn, The (arranged by Granville Bantock), 3d.;

Sol-fa, IJd.
Cruiskeen Lawn, The (arranged by R. P. Stewart), 3d.;

Sol-fa, Ud.
Dear Little Shamrock, The (arranged by H. Elliott Button), 2d.
Emer's Lament for Cuchulain (arranged by Granville Bantock),

3d.; Sol-fa, lid.
Far Awav (arranged by T. R. Joze), 2d.; Sol-fa, Id.
Fly Not Yet (arranged by T. R. Joze), 3d.; Sol-fa, Id.
Harvest Rose, The (arranged by T. R. Joze), 3d.
How dear to me (arranged by A. A. Noedham), 3d.
Irish Reel, The (arranged by T. R. Joze), 4d.; Sol-fa, l^d.
Irisli Wedding Song (The Kilkenny Air) (arranged by J. B.

Rogers), 3d. ; Sol-fa, Id. ■
Kitty of Coleraino (arranged by C. H. Lloyd), 2d.; Sol-fa, Id.
Lament, A (arranged by T. R. Joze), 2d.; Sol-fa, Id.
Last Rose of Summer, The (arranged by T. Distin), 2d.
Last Rose of Summer, The (arranged by Turle Lee), 2d.
Mother's Lamentation, The (arranged by T. F. Dunhill), 2d.;

Sol-fa, Id.
'Sullivan M6r (arranged by T. R. Joze), 2d.; Sol-fa, Id.
Silent, Moyle (arranged by J. Seymour), 2d.; Sol-fa, Id.
Song of Fionnuala, The (arranged by Granville Bantock), Id.
Songs of our land (arranged by A. A. Needham), 3d.
'Twas one of those dreams (arranged by T. R. Joze), 2d.
"When Tlirough Life (arranged by T. R. Joze), 2d.; Sol-fa, Id.
Young May Moon, The (arranged by C. H. Lloyd), 2d. ; Sol-fa, Id.
Dear Little Shamrock is also issued arranged for 4 male

voices (T.T.B.B.).
Last Rose, etc., also arranged for 4 male voices (A.T.T.B.).
The Irish Reel, also arranged for 3 female or boys' voices (S.S.A.).
" All may be highly recommended." — (G. O'N.)

J. CURWEN AND SONS.

1.— National Part Songs. IJd. each number, each containing
eight songs. Can be had in either Staff or Tonic Sol-fa.
No. 7.— Arranged by Sir Robert Stewart, including Kate

Kearney, The Minstrel Boy, Last Rose, Believe me

if . . ., Patrick's Day, etc.

152 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

No. 8. — Arranged by Sir B. Stewart, including Meeting

of Waters, Silent, O Moyle, When through life . . .,

Sing, sweet harp, etc.
No. 16. — Harmonized by J. Spencer Curwen, including

Cruiskeen Lawn, Love's Young Dream, Avenging and

Bright, What will you do love? etc.
No. 17.— Harmonized by J. S. Curwen, including Ob,

breathe not his name. The low-back 'd oar. Oh, Arran-

more. Farewell, but whenever, etc.

2. — Apollo Club Leaflets, some of which (price Id.) contain one
song (one sheet) both in Tonic Sol-fa and StafE {e.g.,
Dear Little Shamrock, Oft in the Stilly Night, others
contain three sheets (prices, Id., 2d., 3d.).

3. -Part Songs for mixed voices (Separate numbers) : —

Believe me, if all, Staff, 2d.; Sol-fa, Id.

Cappeen Gorm (arranged by P. Jackman).

Come back to Erin (Claribel), StafE, 3d. ; Sol-fa, lid.

" Coulin," The, Staff, 2d.; Sol-fa, l-Jd.

Cruiskeen Lawn, The (arranged by J. Seymour), StafE,

lid.; Sol-fa, Id.
Dear Little Shamrock, The.
Lish Airs (Choral Fantasia, C. H. Lewis), StafE, 4d. ;

Sol-fa, 2d.
How oft has the Banshee cried (S.C.T.B.B.), Staff, 2d.;

Sol-fa, Id.
'Tis the last Rose of Summer (arranged by L. C. Venables).
Legend o' MuUaghmast, A (arranged by P. Jackman),

Staff, lid. ; Sol-fa, Id.
No., not more Welcome (arranged by J. Seymour), Staff,

lid.; Sol-fa, Id.
O Native Music (arranged by J. Sevinour), Staff, lid.;

Sol-fa, Id.
Savourneen Deelish Eileen Ogo, Staff, 2d.; Sol-fa, IJd.
Wearing of the Green, The, Staff, l^d. ; Sol-fa, Id.

4. Lish Choruses -.^

Bells of Shandon (J. Seymour, S.S.C), Staff, IJd.; Sol-fa,

Id.
Come Back to Erin (Claribol, Unis.), Staff, 2d. ; Sol-fa, Id.
Dear Harp of my Country (arranged by Smith, S.S.C),

Staff, 2d.; Sol-fa, Id.
Plow On, Thou Shining River (Stevenson, S.C), Staff,

2d.; Sol-fa. Id. . ;. .

Golway Piper (arranged by Fletcher, S.S.C), Staff, 2d.;

Sol-fa, Id.
Kathleen Mavourneen (Crouch, Unis.), Staff, 2d.; Sol-fa,

Id,

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Killamey (M. W. Balfe, Unis.), Staff, 2d. ; Sol-fa, Id.
Last Boss of Summer (arranged by Fletcher, S.S.C),

Staff, 3d. ; Sol-fa, l^d.
Minstrel -Boy (arranged by J. Smith, S.S.C.)," Staff, 2d.;

Sol-fa, Id.
No, not more Welcome (arranged by Smith, S.S.C), Staff,

2d.; Sol-fa, Id.
O Native Music (arranged by J. Smith, S.S.C), Staff,

2d.; Sol-fa, Id.
Rakes of Mallow (See " Gal way Piper ").
St. Senanus and the Lady (arranged by Smith, S.S.C),

Staff, 2d.; Sol-fa, Id.
Wearing o' the Green (Irish Air, S.C), Staff, 2d.; Sol-fa,

Id.
For account of "Erin Song Book " and of " Tonic Solfaist,"
see pp. 135 and 136.

IV. — Books about Irish Music.

Apart from the books mentioned below, much information
about Irish music can be gleaned from the introductions and
prefaces to the various COLLECTIONS included in a preceding
sub-section, p. 111.

(a) HISTORY.

In O'Curry's " Lectures on the Manners and Customs of the
Ancient Irish," edited by W. K. Sullivan, is a section dealing
with " Music and Musical Instruments in Ancient Erin." It
is full of valuable information although a number of its con-
clusions have been corrected by more modern scholarship.

-Walker (Josejjh Cooper). Historical Memoirs of the
Irish Bards. Pp. 166 + 124. ito. (Dublin).
1786.

Rest of title " interspersed with anecdotes of, and occa-
sional observations on, the music of Ireland. Also an
historical and descriptive account of the musical instru-
ments and an Appendix (124 pp.) loontaining several
biographical and other papers with select Irish melodies."
Begins with earliest times and brings history down to
death of Carolan, 17S8, but there is little about the 17tli
and 18th centuries. "O'Halloran, O'Conor, and Vallancey
were my companions [figuratively, of course] ; and with
them I was content to stand or fall." . . . "When I
happen to speak scientifically of music, it is that gentleman
Mr. Beanford who generally dictates." (Pref.). " Walker,"

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says 'Curry, " seems to have been the sport oi ,eyery
pretender to antiquarian knowledge, but more especially
the dupe of an unscrupulous person of the name of
Bcauford, who unblushingly pawned his pretended know-
ledge of facts on the well-intentioned but credulous
Walker." Appendix contains, among a good deal of
rubbish, lives of Turlough O'Carolan and of Cormac
Common. A new edition was published by Christie, of
Dublin, in 1818.

Moore (Thomas). Notes from the Letters of T. Moore
to his Music Publisher, John Power. Pp. xxxiii. +
vi. + 176. (New York: Eedfield). C. 1854.

Introductory letter from T. Croflon Croker. The publica-
tion of these letters was suppressed in London.

Fox (Mrs. Milligan). Annals of the Irish Harpers.
(Smith, Elder), 7s. 6d. 1911.

A volume based on Bunting's Note Books. Quite interesting
as a record of music-collecting in the first quarter of the
19th century, with side-lights on the social life of the
period. Bunting's life-work is fully dealt with, and justice
done to his memory.

Grove's Dictionar,y of Music and Musicians. New ed.
in 6 vols. Edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland, M.A.,
F.S.A. (Macmillaii). 6 Guineas net. 1904-1910.

Contains a mine of information on all matters relating to

music and musicians. There is a special article on Irish

music, and there are biographies of a number of Irish

musicians. As a reference book this monumental work is

indispensable.

See also Brown and Stratton's British Musical Biography.

Flood (W. H. Grattan), Mus. Doc. A History of Irish
Music. Pp. XV. -I- 353. (Browne & Nolan). 6s.
net. Ist ed., 1904. 2nd ed., 1906.

From earliest times to opening of 19th century, with a
short chapter on Irish music from 1800 to present day
(chiefly an account of ten leading composers). From the
Invasion onwards the author treats Irish and Anglo-Irish
music in distinct chapters. The author is greatly helped
by his knowledge of the Iiish language. Chapters on

IRISH MUSIC. 155

Ancient Irish Musical Instrunaents ; Irish Churcli Music;
Shakespeare and Irish Music; Irish Pipers in the 18th
Century ; Handel and Arjie in Ireland ; Harp Festivals and
Harp Societies, etc. Appendix A. — Collections of Irish
M.B. Musical MSS. in Trinity College, Dublin. Index.—
There is no discussion of disputed points, no technical disser-
tations or padding. The book is a vast collection of material
bearing on the subject culled from every possible source,
literally every page being filled with curious and valuable
information. This wealth of detail accounts and more than
compensates for some want of style and arrangement.

jMason (Redfern). The Song Lore of Ireland : Erin's
Story in Music and Verse. Pp. 329. (New York :
Wessels & Bissell Co.). 1910.

Plan thus described by author (Preface). — " In the opening
chapter it is shown how music and song formed an organic
part of the most ancient Irish civilization. It is then
explained how this tradition was kept alive through long
ages by the bards, minstrels and harpers. Chapter III.
dwells on the extraordinary fact of the preservation of
Irish music independent of any written record. The nature
of Irish music is the theme of Chapter IV., and a descrip-
tion follows of the' part played by song in the daily life of
the people. Fairy mythology and spirit lore and the tales
of the Red Branch lead to a discussion of the more strictly
historical aspect of Irish song. The last four chapters are
practically the history in verse and melody of the struggle
of the Irish with the stranger from Clontarf to the dawning
of the day of comparative freedom " (i.e., end of ISth
century). Thoroughly Irish in sympathy, the author tries
" to place in relief everything that throws light on the
character of the Gael." Author understands technicalities
of music. Work illustrated by 44 melodies and by many
quoted poems. A highly interesting and original work, but
disfigured by careless proof-reading.

(b) INSTRUMENTS.

Armstbong (Robert Bruce). Musical Instruments : —
Part T. The Irish and the Highland Harps. Pp.
199. 4to. (Edinburgh: Douglas). £2. 1904.

The Irish harp occupies 137 pp. Book gives its descrip-
tion, measurements, and construction, existing specimens,
missing specimens, samples of music, etc. ; very beautiful
Photogravure, collotype, and block illustrations.

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Part II. English and Irish Instruments. Pp. 168. 4to.
(Edinburgh: Constable). £2. 1908. Illustrated
in a fashion .similar to Part I.

Part I. is particularly valuable for the history of the Irish
Harp. Oiily, 180 copies of each part. Two superb volumes.

•''Sturrock (J. Percy). Piping for Boys. Foolscap
4to. (Stirling: Eneas Mackay). ls.6d.net.

A Piper's Primer to enable young men and boys to teach
themselves to play the bagpipes. " The author . . .
has for several years superintended the teaching of classes
of pipe band recruits."

Crowest (Frederick J.), cd. The Music Story Series.

Wo quote verbatim the Prospectus of the Series : —
" The aim of the ' Music Story Series ' is to make them
indispensable volumes upon the subjects of which they
treat. They are authoritative, interesting, and educational
books — -furnished with appendices which give them per-
manent value as works of reference, data, etc. Each
volume tells all that the reader may want to know upon
any of the aspects of musical art which the various works
of the series cover."

The books are produced in the highest style of typographical
excellence, with choice illustrations in photogravure,
collotype, line, and half-tone reproductions. The paper
for the series is specially made, deckle edge, with wide
margins for readers' and students' notes. Each vol. is
3s. 6d. net. Square crown 8vo. Between 200 and 300 pp.
Published by The Walter Soott Publishing Co., London.
Thirjicen vols, have appeared, of which the following are
of Irish interest : — ■

Flood (W. H. Grattan), D.Mus. The Story of the
Harp. Pp. 210. 1906.

By the Same. The Story of the Bagpipe. Pp. 2B0.

In this, the story of the bagpipe from remotest times — it
is the oldest of the world's instruments — to the present day,
is clearly told. " There are few points which the ordinary
reader desires to know which are not treated fully and
learnedly in these charming pages." — (Sean-ghall) Index
and bibliography.

IRISH MUSIC. 157

Fbaser (Alexander Duncan), M.D., D.P.H,, Edin.
Some Reminiscences and the Bagpipe. Pp. 432.
Demy 8vo. (Edinburgh: Hay). 10s. 6d. net.
1908. 35 Collotype Illustrations.

la a gossipy treatise on, and apologia for, the bagpipe —
its history from Pan to the Black Watch, its uses, its
present status, its music, etc., with a stray personal note.
Dr. Fraser shows himself to be a perfervid Soot; and he
tells a good story.

Ml LLiN (S. Shannon). The Irish Harp. Pp.71. (Bel-
fast: Baird). 6 or 7 good Illustrations. 1898.

A lecture to the Ulster Association of London. At end a
little dissertation by John Vinycomb on " The Harp in
the Arms of Ireland."

(c) IRISH DANCING.

O'Keepfe (J. G.), and Art O'Brien. Handbook of Irish
Dances. Pp. xxvii. + 98. (Dublin: O'Donoghue).
1902.

An excellent handbook. Useful historical notes as well as
a practical description of the various Dances, and a
Bibliography. No music. Dance terms given throughout
in Irish and English.

SriEEHAN, J. J. A Guide to Irish Dancing. Pp. 48.
(London: John Den vir). 1902.
A capital little handbook.

(d) TECHNICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

*0'Neill (Francis). Irish Folk Music : A Fascinating
Hobby. (Chicago: The Regan Printing House).
Pp. 359. 1911.

The miscellany of a collector of Irish music. Treats such
subjects as the history of certain tunes, the variations in
their titles, their origin. Include O'Farrell's Treatise on
the Union Pipes and Touhey's Hints to Amateur Pipers.
Profusely illustrated, especially with photos.
This is a charming book by a zealous lover of Irish folk
music. Mostly letterpress j with a few music examples.

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Henebrt (Eev. Richard). Irisli Music. Pp. 37. 1903.
(Dublin). Is.

A scientific examination of Irish scales, considered by good
authorities to be a misrepresentation of Irish modes. The
pamphlet is now scarce.

*MacDonald (Donald). Irish Music and Irish Scales.
Pp. 8. (Breitkopf). Is. 1910.
Of no particular value.

CuLwicK (James C), Mus.Doc. The Distinctive Char-
acteristics of Ancient Irish Melody ; the Scales . . .
Pp.31. (Dublin: Ponsonby). 1897.

Journal of the Irish Folk-Song Society.

The Irish Folk-Song Society was founded in London in
1904, mainly through the enthusiasm of Mrs. MiUigau Fox.
It has published 11 numbers of a Journal, and has done
good work in rescuing many folk melodies from oblivion,
as well as in popularising old Irish airs. Another Society
was founded in Dublin, as the result of an informal Con-
ference at the Oireachtas in 1911, the objective being to
propagate old Irish melodies with Irish words. No results
are as yet forthcoming.

(e) INSTRUCTION IN MUSIC.

See account of " The Irish Tonic Solfaist " and of the " Erin
Song Book" on pp. 135 and 136. Also under (6) above,
" Instruments.'-

V.-IRISH PLAYS.

By Joseph Holloway.

[The following is not a bibliography of plays by
Irish writers, but a list of plays Irish in subject.

They are arranged chronologically, but the works of
each author are kept together, all being entered in the
list under the date of the first play by that author.

The periods are chosen arbitrarily and merely for
convenience.

Authors still living (October, 1911) are in many cases
indicated by an asterisk.

A. short bibliography of books about the Irish
Theatre will be found on p. 46.

For reasons stated in Preface, plays written in Irish
— ^unless such as have been translated into English —
are not included in the following list. — Ed.]

Before 1700.

The Pride of Life. An Old Irish Morality.

Performed at the Holy Trinity Church, Dublin, about the
middle of the Sixteenth Century. The piece, in a muti-
lated state, is to be found at the back of the " Records of
the Holy Trinity Church," in the Royal Irish Academy,
Dublin. James Starkey (Seumas 'Sullivan), the poet,
gave me this piece of information as we rummaged amongst
the book barrows in a street off the quays one Saturday
afternoon in December, 1911.

The Irish Knight. Play.

Acted by the Earl of Warwick's servants, 1576.

GiRALDi (Giovanni Battiste), otherwise " Cinthro " — ■
Arrenopia. A Play written in Italian and printed
in 16th century.

The scene is laid in Limerick. This play is in the Gilbert
Library. The entry runs thus : — ' ' Arrenopia tragedie di
M. Gio. Batt. Giraldi ' Cinthio ' nobile Ferrarese, Con
Privilege Venese, 1583." Arrenopia is the daughter of a
King of Scotland, and marries the King of Ireland.

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Hughes (Thomas), and Others. The Misfortunes of
Arthur. A Play. Printed in London, by Eobert
Robinson. 1B87.

Played at Greenwich before Queen Elizabeth on February
28th, 1588. To every act of this performance there was
an argument, a dumb show, and a chorus. " Contrasted
with the character of Peace, in one of the symbolical dumb
shows, was another, with black, long, shagged hair down his
shoulders, appareled with an Irish jacket and short, having
an Irish dagger in his hand." This figure, by an associa-
tion of ideas, was supposed to represent Bevenge and Fury.

SiiAKESPEABE (William). King Henry V. Historical
Play in 6 Acts. Written 1598 (?). Published
imperfectly 1600.

Macmorris, an Irish officer in King Henry's army, is one
of the cast.

The History of Sir John Oldcastle. A pseudo-Shake-
sperian Pla)^

In tliis piece there is a grim sketch of a despicable Irish
lackey, " Mack Shane of Ulster," as he styles himself,
^vho murders his master for his chain and jewellery. He
appears in the play garbed as an Englishman, having
exchanged attire with another character.

Dekkeh (Thomas). Old Fortunatus. Comedy. (1600).
There is an Irish character in the cast. Acted before the
Queen at Christmas, by the Earl of Nottingham's servants,
1600. The plot of it is founded on the ancient story of
Fortunatus and his inexhaustible purse and wishing cap.
The scene lies partly at Fama Gosta, in the Island of
Cyprus, and partly in the Court of England during the
reign of Athelstan.

The Honest Whore. (1604). Part 2.

I'hough the action of this play is laid in JMilan, a humble
Irishman, in the character of Bryan, a servant, is intro-
duced.

The Whore of Babylon. A History. (1607).

In this piece the author symbolises the dead Queen Eliza-
beth as Titania, Queen of the fairies. To her come three
kings on a mission, and one of them champions the cause
of lerne.

TRISTI PLAYS. Ifil

Webster (John). The White Devil. A Tragedy.
(1612).

Scene, Venice. W. J. Lawrence, the tliiatrioal history
expert, writes : — " Local colour is sadly to seek in Seven-
teenth century dramaturgy. Where the scene is laid in
Italy, the action almost invariably takes place in contem-
porary London. Note, for example, the recurring Irish
allusions in Webster's The White Devil."

Haywood (Thomas). Tlie Four Prentices of London,
with the Conquest of Jerusalem. (1615). His-
torical Play.

In this play a dumb show of Irish kerns mourning a
corpse in a dead march is introduced into the middle of
the first act, probably with the view of emphasising the
fact that the action is transpiring in Ireland. Later in
the act Eustace and his trusty Irish servant are shown in
Italy.

Field (Nathaniel). Amends for Ladies. Comedv.
(1618).

In this piece Lady Honour disguises herself " like an Irish
footboy with a dart." Scene, London. The plot of
Subtle 's tempting the wife at the request of the husband,
seems founded on the novel the " Curious Impertinent "
in Dox Quixote. This play was written by the author by
May of making the ladies' amends for a comedy called
Woman's a Weathercock, which he had written some years
before, and whose very title seemed to be a satire on their
sex.

JoNSON (Ben). The New Inn; or, The Light Heart.
Comedy. (1629). Printed 1631,
Ben Jonson was born at Westminster in June, 1574, and
died in August, 1637, aged 63, and was buried in West-
minster Abbey. He introduced Irish characters into this
comedy as well as into The Irish Masque at Court. The
title page of the printed play reads as follows : — -" The New
Inn; or, The Light Heart. A comedy, never acted, but
most negligently played by some of the King's Servants,
and more squeamishly beheld and censured by others
the King's subjects, 1629. Now at last set at liberty to
the Readers, his Majesty's Servants and Subjects, to be
judged."

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Tlio Irish Masque at Court. Printed 1640.

Presented by Gentlemen and King's Servants,

1613.

Jonson wrote over fifty dramatic compositions.

The Irish Rebellion. Anon. Acted circa 1623.

Sir H. Herbert licensed a new play by Kirke, under this
title, 1642.

Ford (John). The Chronicle History of Perkin War-
Ijcek. A Strange Truth. (1634). Printed 1714.

Acted at the Phcenix, Drury Lane, 1634. The play is
founded on the History of that strange pretender to the
Crown, who set himself up and caused himself to be pro-
claimed King of England, declaring himself to be Eiehard
Duke of York, brother of Edward V., who lost his life in the
Tower, as may be seen in the English Historians, in the
reign of Henry VII. Scene, England. An Irish character
is introduced into this play.

Shirley (James). Hyde Park. Comedy.

Acted at the private house, Drury Lane, 1637. " Teague "
was the common nickname for Irishmen in the seventeenth
century. Note its use in this comedy. " Paddy " sup.
planted it about the close of the eighteenth century.

St. Patrick for Ireland. Historical Play. (1640).

For the plot of the play, Bede's TAfe of St. Patrick, etc.,
were consulted. Shirley was born in London in 1594, and
died of terror, occasioned by the great fire of London in
1666. He wrote 39 plays.

BuRKi-iEAD (Henry). Cola's Fury; or, Lirenda's
Misery. Tragedy. (1645).

The subject of this play is the Irish rebellion which broke
out in the year 1641. In it the dramatist has characterized
all the principal persons ooncorned in the afiairs of that
time under feigned names. And even the second title of the
piece, viz., Lirenda's Misery, is expressive of the subject
aimed at Lirenda being no more than an anagram (which
was a kind of quibble then much in vogue), formed from
the letters which compose the name of Ireland. Printed
at Kilkenny, 1645.

IRISH PLAYS. 1.03

Head (Eichard). Hie et Ubique; or, The Humours of

Dublin.

" This play is said to have been acted privately with general
applause." 1663. Scene, Dublin. A printed copy of this
play is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

HowAED (Sir Eobert). Tlie Committee; or, The Faith-
ful Irishman.

A play produced in 1665, in which the character of league,
a simple-minded, honest fellow, was drawn from life. This
play was turned into a farce by Thomas Knight, an actor,
in 1797. The farce (in 2 acts) was called The Honest
Thieves. Cast : II males and 3 females. John Lacy was
the original Teague. He died in 1681.

Shadwell (Thomas). The Lancashire Witches and
The Amorous Bigot.

Two political plays with " malignant portraiture of the
Irish priesthood in them." Shadwell was poet laureat
to King "William III. He was born at Lauton Hall
in Norfolk, in 1640. He wrote The Lancashire Witches
and Teague O'Divelly, the Irish Priest, in 1682, and The
Amorous Bigot, with the second part of Teague O'Divelly,
in 1690. The former was acted at the Duke's Theatre,
1682, and the latter acted by His Majesty's Servants at a
date not given.

Crowne (John). City Politics. Comedy. (1675).
Printed 1683.

This play was a very severe satire upon the Whig party
then prevailing. The scene is laid in Naples, and a
" foolish, mistaken Irish witness " is introduced who proves
a shameless, lying rogue, with a love for usquebaugh.

The Royal Voyage ; or, The Irish Expedition,

In which the momentous struggle between England and
the last of the Stuarts is treated with vigour flippantly.
Produced at Saffry's booth at Bartholomew Fair in the
year 1689.

The Eighteenth Century.

Faequhar (George). The Twin Rivals.

A comedy presented at Drury Lane in 1703, in which
Teague again appears.

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. The Beaux' Stratagem. A Comedy in 5 Acts.

In which Isaac Sparks appeared as Foigard. Cast : 10 males
and 4 females. Comedy acted at Haymarket, 1707. This
play was begun and ended in six weeks, the author labour-
ing all the time under settled illness, which carried him
ofi during the run of his piece. Farquhar born at London-
derry in 1678. Father a clergyman.

Centlivee (Mrs. Susanna). A Wife Well Managed.
A Farce. 1715.

" league," an Irishman, is included in the cast. Mrs.
Centliver, whose maiden name was Freeman, was born in
Dublin about 1667, and died in 1729. She married three
times; her last husband gave her the name by which she
is known to fame. She wrote 19 plays.

Plays by Charles Shadwell.

Eotheric O'Connor, King of Connaught; or, The

Distressed Princess. Tragedy. Acted in Dublin,

1720.

The plot is borrowed from Irish historians, and the title
points out where the scene is laid.

The Plotting Lovers; or, The Dismal Squire.

Farce.

This piece was acted in Dublin, 1720. It is a "transla-
tion with liberty " of Moliere's Mona. de Pourceaugnac.
The scene is laid in Dublin; time of representation, one
hour.

Irish Hospitality ; or, Virtue Rewarded. Comedy.

(1720).

The scene is laid at Mount Worthy in Fingall. Shadwell
was ti relative of Thomas Shadwell, the poet-laureat. He
enjoyed a post in Dublin, in which city he died on the
11th of August, 1726.

CoNCANEN (Matthew). Wexford Wells. Comedy with
songs. (1721).
He was a native of Ireland. This was his only play.

Phillips (William). Saint Stephen's Green; or, The
Generous Lovers. Comedy. (1720).

Hibernia Freed. Tragedy.

Acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. 1722.

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HippiSLEY (John). A Journey to Bristol; or, The
Honest Welshman. Farce. Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Printed 1729.
(See The Connaught Wife).

MioiiELBURNE (Johnj. Ireland Preserved; or, The
Siege of Londonderi-jr. Tragi-Comedy. Printed
in Dublin, 1738-9.

Baker states in " Biographia Dramatica " : — " This play
was written by John Michelborne, one of the Governors of
Londonderry during the siege of it " (1688-9). There \\as
an earlier edition printed in 1707. This piece was also
published anonymously in 1692 as Piety and Valour; or,
Derry Defended.

CuTTs (J.). Rebellion Defeated; or, The Fall of
Desmond. Printed, 1745.

Mendez (Moses). The Double Disappointment. Farce.
Acted at Covent Garden, 1747.

The piece is about a young girl M'ho has two strings to
her bow : an Irishman and a Frenchman, both of them
fortune hunters of humble origin. The Irish role was filled
by Barrington. Play printed in 1760.

Hibernia's Triumph. Masque in 2 Interludes. Acted
at Dublin. Printed, 1748.

Sheridan (Thomas). Captain O'Blunder ; or, The Brave
Irishman. A Farce, based on one of Moliere's
plays.

It was written by him, when at school, about the year
1740. Isaac Sparks was the original Captain O'Blunder.
First acted in Dublin about 1748. Mr. Sheridan was the
father of R. B. Sheridan. He was born at Quilca, in the
County of Cavan, and was manager of a Dublin theatre
for about eight years.

Stevens (George Alexander). The Humours of an
Irish Court of Justice.

Dramatic satire, dated London, 12, 1750. Isaac Sparks
appeared as the judge in the burlesque court scene. Stevens
was a well-known entertainer in his day, and travelled
about with a strange medley performance, called A Lecture
on. Heads.

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Stevens (G. A.). The True Born Irishman. Faroe.
Acted at York, 1771.
Probably a version of Maokliu's comedy of the same name.

Murphy (Arthur). The Apprentice. A Farce. (1756).

There is an Irish servant, alleged to be comic, in this play.
Murphy was born at Clooniquin, Co. Roscommon, 1727,
and died at Knightsbridge, London, on June 18thj 1805.
Murphy was a prolific dramatist.

Beaumarchais — La ilt're Coupablo (The Guilty
Mother).

This piece has an atrocious Irish villain in it, with an
impossible name, who conspires with his equally disreput-
able Irish friend, O'Connor, to ruin the virtuous French
characters. Written in the 18th century.

AsHTON (Eobert). The Battle of Aughrim; or, The
Fall of Monsieur St. Euth.

A blank-verse play, in 5 Acts, published in Dublin, 1756.
Cast : 12 males and 2 females. Scene : The Irish Camp
near Athlone (July 12th, 1691). Sarsfield, Lord Lucan,
is one of the chief characters in the play. From a rhym-
ing prologue to the piece I extract the following lines : —

" But should the play fall short upon my truth,
Ton may impute it to our author's youth.
Scarce tender twenty, faith a childish age.
To bring so great a subject on the stage,
Then critics judge with temper as you sit
Nor let no malice over-rule your wit,
For if you do, by Jove we'll damn your pit."

And again — " Now to the ladies we submit the cause,

And from their eyes expect to gain applause;
For at the first our author took a care
To find a little love to please the fair.
Then ladies, pray do justice every way,
Pity his youth, and strive to save his"play;
But if it must be damnM, why damn away."

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CoLMAN (George) (the elder). (1732-1794). The
Jealous Wife. A Comedy in 2 Acts. Founded
on Fielding's " Tom Jones."

Containing a not very pleasing type of Irishman in
" Captain 'Cutter." Cast : 8 males' and 4 females. Pro-
duced in 1761.

Reed (Joseph). The Register-Office. A Farce in 2
Acts. (1761).

This eighteenth century farce contains the character of an
" Irishman " originally filled by John Moody. Cast : 10
males and 4 females. It is to be found in Vol. 1-1 of Bell's
British Theatre (London).

Plays by Charles Magklin.

The True Born Irishman. A Comedy in 2 Acts.

First produced at Theatre Itoyal, Crow Street, Dublin, on
May 14th, 1762, and revived by the Theatre of Ireland,
at Dublin, on February 18th, 1910. Murrogh O'Doghorty,
a true lover of all things Irish, has a wife ^^•ho, on her
return from a visit to London, despises everything Irish
and worships all that comes from across the Channel.
The play revived surprisingly well — the sentiments being
as applicable to the present day as they were in the
eighteenth century. Cast : 6 males .and 6 females.
Maolaughlin was Macklin's right surname. He was born
in Westmeath in 1690, and died in 1797, at the great age
of 107, and was buried in St. Paul's, Covent Garden.

The Irish Fine Lady. Farce.

.•Vctcd at Covent Garden one night only, November 28th,
1767. (Sec The True Born Irishman).

Love a la Mode. A Comedy in 2 Acts. (17G0).

J. Moody first played the role of Sir Callagan O'Brallaghan,
and was the first to bring the stage Irishman into repute.
Cast : 5 males and 1 female. Dublin : 1793. In Jones's
British Theatre, and many later editions in England and
America.

Love is the Conqueror ; or, The Irish Hero.

MSS. play in Charles Macklin's Library.

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Clive (Mrs. Catherine). The Faithful Irishwoman.
Farce. Acted at Drury Lane, March 18th, 17C15,
for her benefit.

Mrs. Clive, wlio was a groat comic actress, was born in
1711. Her father — William Rafter— was a native of Kil-
kenny. She made her first appearance on the stage of
Drury Lane in 1728, in boy's clothes, in the character
of a page, in the tragedv of Mithridatcs, King of Pontus.
In 1732 she married G. Clive.

The Connaught Wife. Comedy in 2 Acts. Per-
formed at Smock- Alley, Dublin, 1767.

This is Hippisley's Jo'unicy to Brisiul altered).

Teague's Ramble to London. Interlude. Haymarket
London, 1770.

Cumberland (Richard). The West Indian. Comedy
(1771). ^

Major O'Flagherty is one of the characters of the oomedv,
and the author tells us it was written during a visit to his
father (Bishop of Kilmore) in 1770, in a little closet at
the back of the Bishop's palace, at Clonfert, "having no
prospect but a single turf stack." Performed at Drury
Lane, 1771. John Moody was the original O'Flaghertv,
but Robert Owenson, father of Lady Morgan, afterwards
played it to perfection.

Griffith (Amyas). Swaddler. A Farce. (1771).

Born in Roscrca, Tippcrary, 1746. W. J. LaMTenoe told
me this piece contains some Irish characters.

MoDermott (John) The Milesian. A Comic Opera.
(Dublin). 1772. ^

Performed at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, on November
r ; J , ..^^ Donogbuo, m his book. The Poets of
Ireland asks: "Can this be connected in any ^^y win
Isaac Jaokman s piece? " •' "^

IRISH PLAYS.

169

Gaeeiok (David). The Irish Widow. A Farce in 2
Acts.

Cast: 6 males and 1 female. First acted at Drury Lane,
1772, with Mrs. Barry in title role. A nephew and guar-
dian fall in love with a widow, and the latter refuses to
give his consent to the marriage, or give his nephew any
fortune, he wanting the sprightly lady for himself. By a
trick being jjlayed on the old man, he is glad to get nd
of the widow, and willingly hands her over to the nephew
with a tidy fortune, .only to find out ho has been fooled
by both. With trifling alterations it would act well.
Garrick was born at Hereford, 1716. He was a son of
Peter Garrick, a Captain in the Army.

DoBBS (Francis). The Patriot King; or, Tlie Irish
Chief. Tragedy.

Acted at Smock Alley, Dublin, 1774. Dobbs was a native
of Ireland.

Kelly (Hugh). School for Wives. A Comedy in 5
Acts,

In which Connolly, a good-hearted, whole-souled Irishman,
disported himself "without the author betraying partiality
on the one hand, or descending into caricature on the
other." Cast : 8 males and 4 females. Produced at
Drury Lane in 1774. The plot is one of intrigue, and tells
how a loving, trusting wife weans her profligate husband
from his vicious ways by kindness; and also how an aged
General and his son play amusingly at cross-purposes for
the hand of the same young lady.

Sheridan (Richard Brinsley). The Rivals. Comedy
in 5 Acts.

Sir Lucius 'Trigger, a duel-loving Irishman, plays an
important part in the piece. The story of , Sir Anthony
Absolute forcing his son to marry the girl he is actually
in love with, though he is not aware of the fact at the
time, makes delightful comedy. Cast : 9 males and 5
females. Produced at Covent Garden in 1775, with Leo
as " Sir Lucius." His playing nearly wrecked the comedy
•until Clinch came to the rescue in the part.

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St. Patrick's Day ; or, Tlie Scheming Lieutenant.

A Farce in 2 Acts. First played at Covent Gar-
den, May 2, 1 775.

Ill order to "win his waj' to his loved cue, a lieutenant
has to assume many disguises .and resort to all sorts of
devices to hoodwink her parents, who will have nought to
do with him. Success comes his way in the end.
Eighteenth centurv costume. Sheridan was born in Dublin
in 1751, and dicd'iu 1816.

UiBDiN (C). 1745-1814. Irish Chairman.

Jackman (Isaac). The Milesian. A Comic Opera.
(London, 1777).

Le Fanu (Peter). Smock Alley Secrets; or. The Man-
ager Worried. Occasional prelude. Dublin.
1778.

Cowley (Mrs. H.). Tlie Belle's Stratagem. Comedy
in 5 Acts.

Cast : 9 males and 6 females. Tyrone Power played Flutter
in this comedy at the Boyal, Dublin, in 1829. First
played at Covent Garden in 1780. This and most of the
old plays mentioned herein are published in " Dicks'
Standard Plays."

Macaulfa- (John). The Genius of Ireland. Masipie.
(An imitation of Comus). Printed 1785.
Acted at Dublin.

Plays by John O'Keeffe.

■ The Shamrock; or, The Anniversary of St.

Patrick. Farce. Covent Garden, April, 1783.

(Changed to The Poor Soldier).

Patrick in Prussia.

A Comic Opera, in 2 Acts, with all the original songs . . .
being a sequel to The Poor Soldier. Dublin : J. M. Davis,
1786. (New edition). First played at Covent Garden,
.February 17, 1786.

IRISH PLAVS. 171

- The Poor Soldier.

Comic Opera, in 2 Acts, with music partly selected aud
partly composed _by William Shield. Covent Garden,
1783; Smock Alley, January 16th, 1784. (See The Sham-
rock). The scene is at Carton, Co. Kildare. Norah is
loved by Patrick, a soldier, and also by Captain
Fitzroy. The Captain, hearing that Patrick was the man
who had saved him in battle, gives up his pursuit of Norah.
There arc airs by Carolan iu the opera. Cast : 6 males, 2
females and a boy.

- The Wicklow Mountains ; or, Gold in Ireland.

A Drama, in 2 Acts. Sevonteeuth century costumes.
Cast : 7 males and 2 females. Fii'st produced at Covent
Garden, London, on April 11th, 1795. O'Keeffo was a
most prolific and popular dramatic writer. He was born
iu Dublin on June 24th, 1747, and died in 1843.

- Tlie Irish Mimic.

Musical piece, produced in 1795.

- The Lad of the Hills (see Tlie Wicklow Moun-
tains).

Comic Opera. Covent Garden, London, April 9th, 1796.
Reduced to an after piece and called Wicklow Gold Mines.
Pelix finds some bits of gold on one of the mountains,
which his old nurse sells for him in Dublin, and his neigh-
bours think he must have got the money by robbing the
Mail.

- Love in a Camp ; or, Patrick in Prussia.
Musical piece (1798). (Sec Patrick in Prussia).

- Wicklow Gold Mines; or, The Boy from the
Scalp. Farce.

Tyrone Power appeared for the first time as Billy O'Rourke
in this piece in Dublin on July 14th, 1830. Cast : 4 males
and 2 females.

- Dramatic Works. 4 vols. London. 1798.

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Stuart (C). The Irishman in 'Spain. Farce.

Taken from the Spanish. Haymarket, London, August
3rd 1791. (Printed 1791.) First called She Would he u.
Duchess.

Byrne (M.). Dermot and Kathleen; or, The Irish
Wedding.

Ballet. Covent Garden, London, 1793. (Characters same
as those in The Poor Soldier.)

Patrick's Return.

Ballet, Drury Lane, London, February 5th, 1817.

RoBSON (H.). Money at a Pinch; or, The Irishman's
Frolics.

Musical Entertainment. Covent Garden, London, April
25th, 1793.

Arrival at Crow Street ; or, Thespian from Tanderagee.
Drama, in one Act. Dublin, 1796.

Reynolds (George Nugent). Bantry Bay.

Musical Interlude, in one Act, with music by W. Reeve.
Covent Garden, London, February 18th, 1797. (Printed
1797). It is loyal in tone, and deals with the French
invasion.

Knight (Thomas). The Honest Thieves. A Farce.

Theatre Royal, Dublin, July, 1843, with Dennis Leonard
as " Teague." (Original production, 1797.)

Arnold (S. J.), Libretto by, and Aenold (Dr.), Music
by. The Irish Legacy.
Haymarket, June 26th, 1797.

OuLTON (Walley Chamberlain). The Irish Tar,
Musical Interlude, produced 1797.

The Tight Irish Boy.

Played at Covent Garden, London, May 9, 1797.

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Early Nineteenth Century (I800-I83I).

Holm AN (J. G.). What a Blunder! Comic Opera.

First played at the Haymarket in August, 1800. Of Sir
Sturdy O'Tremor, the Irish character in the piece, played
by Jack Johnstono, W. J. Lawrence writes : " An Irish
soldier seeking his fortune in Spain, Sir Sturdy is a vigorous
specimen of Celtic manhood, but he suffers from the
queerest kind of intermittent hypochondria. When de-
prived of his lady love, he fancies himself the victim of all
sorts of disorders, a state of whimsical morbidity that only
the recovery of his mistress finally dispells."

Cross (J. C). The Enchanted Harp; or, Harlequin
for Ireland.

Dramatic spectacle. Royal Circus, London. (Printed 1802).

The Round Tower; or, The Chieftains of Ireland.

Covent Garden, London. (Printed 1809).

MouLTEE (• — ). The Irishman in Italy (False or True).
Comedy, 1806.

CoLMAN (George). The Younger. (1763-1836). John
Bull ; or, The Englishman's Fireside. Comedy in
3 Acts.

When Dion Boucieault revised the play he appeared as
Dennis Bulgruddery. Cast : 14 males and 3 females. Ori-
ginally produced at Covent Garden, March 5, 1803. This
fine old comedy tells the story of a wronged young girl
righted, and of an elder brother claiming his property on
seeing his younger misuse his power. Dennis, an inn-
keeper, is an important character in the piece. One of
his sayings is : " Lodge in my heart, and I'll never ax you
for rent." Scene, Cornwall.

O'Meara (Daniel A.). Brian Boroihme; or, The Maid
of Erin.

(Performed in Ireland about 1810). James Sheridan
Knowles adapted the story and incidents for his play of
the sam'3 name, acted at Covent Garden Theatre on Thurs-
day, April 20th, 1837.

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:\riLLiKEx (Richard Alfred). Darby ia Arms. A
Dramatic Piece. (About 1810).
Milliken was born at Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, on Septem-
ber 8, 1767, and died on December 16, 1815.

Fitzgerald (Preston). The Spaniard and Siorlamh.
A Tragedj'. 1810.

Moore (Thomas). M.P.; or, The Bhie Stocking. A
Comic Opera. London. 1811.

D. J. O'Dcnogliue thinlis tbis piece bas an Irish cbaraeter.
Moore was bom in Aungier Street, Dublin, on May 28,
1779, and died at Sloperton Cottage, near Devizes, on
February 25, 1852. His " Melodies " will be appreciated
as long as there is an Irishman left in the world. When
this opera was revived at the Royal, Dublin, on July 12,
1828, Mrs. Haydn Corri appeared in it as Susanna.

Lyon (Mr.), composed by. Sheelah's Day; or, Erin
Go Braugh.

Pastoral Ballet, in which a variety of National tunes and
dances are introduced. Produced at Eoyal Hibernian
Theatre, Dublin, March 16th, 1811. Mr. Lyon was BaUet
Master to the theatre.

Wilson (Charles). The Irish Valet. Farce, with
Power as Larry Holagan.

Royal, Dublin, Juue, 1836. Published, London, 1811

(anonymously).

Le Fanu (Mrs. Alicia). The Sons of Erin ; or, Modem
Sentiment. Comedy.
Drury Lane, London, April 11th, 1812.

Code (Henry Brereton). The Russian Sacrifice; or,
The Burning of ]\[oscow. A Drama with songs.
Dublin. 1813.

" As Code was the real author of The Sprig of Shillelagh
and Shamrock so Oreen (not Lysaght , and it was sung in
this piece," D. J. O'Donoghue, "is quite certain there is
an Irish character in it." Code's real name was Cody.

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M'Laren (F.) What News from Bantry Bay?
Not printed. (Before 1814).

The Ninth Statute; or, The Irishman in Bagdad.
(From the Arabian Nights). Drama, with Gar-
diner as " Kilrooney."

Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, October, 1843. First played
at Drury Lane, November 29, 1814.

Balfour (Miss Mary). Kathleen O'Neil. A grand
National Melodrama in 3 Acts, as performed at
the Belfast Theatre in 1814, and published anony-
mously in that year.

Miss Balfour was the daughter of a Derry clergyman.

Edgeworth (Maria). Love and Law. A Comic
Drama in 3 Acts.

Cast : 6 males, 4 females, and supers. Published, London,
1817. Scene laid in Ireland. Nearly all the characters
are Irish. The play concludes with the words : " A fig for
the bog of Ballynascraw. Now 'tis all love and no law."
The author was bqrn in Oxfordshire on January 1st, 1767,
and died on May 22nd, 1849.

The Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock. A Comic

Drama in 3 Acts.

Cast: 5 males and 5- females. Scene: The Village of
Bannow, in Ireland. Published, London, 1817. Biddy
Doyle, a servant at the inn, is a very amusing character.
She is so hard worked, she exclaims : "But to live in this
here house, girl or boy, one had need have the lives of
nine cats and the legs of forty."

Clarke (Lady Olivia), The Irish Woman.
A Comedy, in 5 Acts (1819),

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Glengall (Lord). The Irish Tutor; or, New Lights.

A Farcp, in 1 Act. Tells in most amusing way how Terry
O'Roui-k'e plays the role of Dr. O'Toolc, the Irish tutor,
and what comes of his adventure. A capital farce, which
takes ahout forty minutes in the playing. Cast : 4 males
and 2 females. ' Adapted from the French. Cheltenham
Theatre, July 12th, 1822. To be had from S. French. 6d.

Cox (Walter). The Widow Dempsey's Funeral.

A small three -act comedy, or dialogue in prose. (Hayes,
Dublin, 1822). The piece is satirical in turn, and gives
a humorous picture of lower middle-class life in the last
century. The language used by the characters "is as full
as a nut." " Watty " Cox was a notable writer of his day.
He established The Union Star in 1797, and in 1807 The
Irish Magazine and Monthly Asylum of Neglected
Biography. In his writings he was " agin the Govern-
ment," until he was pensioned off for his silence. He
was born in County Meath in 1770, and died in Dublin in
1837. His play was written and published in 1822, but
never acted until by the Theatre of Ireland Co. at Hard-
wicke Street Hall on December 18th, 1911. A copy of the
play, with its quaint woodcuts, is in the National Library,
Dublin. Cast : 7 males and 6 females. Scene : Dublin.

EoDWELL (G. H.). More Blunders than One.

A farce in one act. Early nineteenth century costumes.
Cast : 4 males and 3 females ; 3 interior scenes. First per-
formed at Adelphi, London, on December 13th, 1824, with
Tyrone Power as Larry Hoolagan.

Tedd.y the Tiler.

A farce in one act. The fun is created by an Irish tiler
dressing up in gentleman's clothes and being mistaken for
the gentleman. Cast : 12 males and 6 females. Four
scenes — 2 interior and 2 exterior. Taken from the French.
Covent Garden, London, February 8th, 1880.

McNeil (James). The Agent and the Absentee. A
Play. Written about 1824.

McNeil was a Dublin man.

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Plays by Samuel Lover. (1797-1868).

II Paddy Whack in Italia.

All operetta in one act. (Buncombe's British Theatre,
1825). A burlesque on Italian operatic methods.

— — The White Horse of the Peppers.

Comic drama, in 2 acts. Colonel Pepper fools a Dutch-
man into relinquishing the estate he has come over to
claim that always belonged to the Peppers. The way he
does so is amusingly set forth in the play. Time, 1690.
Place, Ireland. Characters : 11 males and 2 females.
Seven scenes. Tyrone Power 'originally filled the role of
Colonel Pepper at Haymarket in 1835.

Eory O'More.

A drama, in 3 acts, founded on the novel of that name.
Old-fashioned costumes. Time of performance, three
hours. There are quite a large number of scenes. The
drama is both exciting and interesting, with the title role
to give birth to laughter. The cast is a long one. First
performed at Adelphi Theatre, London, October, 1837, with
Power in title role.

Barney the Baron.

A farce, in 1 act. An itinerant Irish tinker wins a castle
in a lottery, and comes to take possession. A capital
farce of its kind. Characters : 7 males and 2 females.
Barry Williams was Barney O 'Toole in original cast.

The Happy Man.

Extravaganza in one act. A delightfully droll piece, in
which a search is being made for the shirt of a
happy man, and the seekers come across a jolly
Irishman, who seems as happy as the day is long.
They make much of him, and try to coax him to part
with his shirt. He refuses. So they try to obtain it by
force, only to discover that all he possesses is a " Tommy."
The late Colonel John Hay and Sir Walter Scott used the
same idea in their ballads — The Enchanted Shirt and The
Search after Happiness, respectively. Eastern costume.
Cast : 7 males and 2 females. Power was Paddy Murphy
in original cast,

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MacCarthy More; or, Possession Nine Points of

the Law.

A comic drama, in 2 acts. Period, 1700. Cast : 6 males
and 8 females. Six scenes— 3 interior and 3 exterior. First
played at Lyceum, London, April 1, 1861.

Henri Quatre ; or, Paris in the Olden Time. Operatic
Drama, with Gardiner as " O'Donnell."

Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, October, 1843. Originally
played at Drury Lane, June 21, 1825.

Peake (R. Brinsley). One Hundred Pound Note.

Farce, in 2 acts, in wbiob Tyrone Power appeared as
O'Shaughnessy, in 1826, at Koyal, Dublin.

Planche (J. R.). Returned " Killed."

A farce in 2 acts, in whicli Tyrone Power played the
Irish role of Sergeant Milligan in 1826. Cast : 8 males
and 2 females. First played, October 31, 1826.

The Irish Post. A Comic Drama in 2 Acts.

A good piece of its kind, lasting about an hour and a-half.
Cast : 9 males and 3 females. Two interior scenes. First
performed at Theatre Royal, Haymarket, February 28th,
1846. An amusing play of complications, arising out of a
letter enclosed in a wrong envelope by Terence 'Grady,
a blundering, thoughtless Irishman, with result that an
innocent lady's name is very nearly compromised over it.
Luckily the letter, after all the hugger-mugger, is found
in 'Grady's pocket — it never having been posted at all.
Mr. Hudson played " O 'Grady " in original cast.

Ckokbb (Thomas Crofton). Daniel O'Rourke; or,
Rhymes of a Pantomime. London. 1828.

Morton (Thomas). The Invincibles.

Musical Farce, in 2 Acts, with Tyrone power as Corporal
'Slash and Madame Vestus as Victoire. Royal, Dublin,
June 22nd, 1829. This and The Irish Tutor were the pieces
chosen by Tyrone Power on the opening night of his first
engagement in Dublin. First played at Covent Garden,
February 28, 1828.

IBISH PL4YS. 179

No. 18, College Green , Dublin,

Interlude. Cast : 2 males and 1 female. Played at the
Royal, Dublin, 1829. (Localised version of an English
farce).

Cooke (N. T.). Thierua-na-O-ge (Tir-na nOg) ; or,
The Prince of the Lakes.

Melodramatic fairy tale. Founded on traditions of South
of Ireland. Drury Lane, London, April 20th, 1829.

PococK (Isaac). Omnibus; or, "A Convenient Dis-
tance."

A farce, in one act. An amusing piece, with a good Irish
servant part. Drawingroom scene. Time of performance,
40 minutes. Cast : 5 males and 4 females. First pro-
duced at the Theatre Eoyal, Covent Garden, December 6th,
1830, with Tyrone Power as Pat Rooney, a Handy-
Andyish servant. (Published by J. Dicks).

The Robber ''S Wife. Eomantic Domestic Drama

in 2 Acts, in which Barney Williams took the role
of " Larry O'Gig " at the Royal, Dublin, Novem-
ber, 1857.

Originally produced January Vth, 1830.

Bayly (Thomas Haynes). Perfection ; or. The Lady
from Munster.

A comedietta, in one act. A bright little trifle, in which
the heroine confesses to the man of her choice that she
possesses a cork leg. Luckily for him she was a native
of the Southern Capital I Cast : 3 males and 2 females.
Drury Lane, London, March 25th, 1830.

One Hour; or, The Carnival Ball.

An original burlette. First performed, January 11, 1836,
with Brougham as O'Leary.

Pepper (George). Kathleen O'Neill; Ireland Re-
deemed; or, The Devoted Princess. A Play.
Produced in New York in 1830.

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Macheady (William). Irishman in London.

Faroe, in 2 acts. An amusing little piece lasting an hour.
Besides the principal characters there is a gruff old man,
a grinning negress, and a blundering Irish lad. Costumes
of 120 years ago. Two scenes — a street and a room — and
6 male" and 3" female characters. Tyrone Power filled the
role of Murdock Delany in this farce at the Royal, Dublin,
in June, 1830. First played at Covent Garden in 1792.
W. Macready was the father of the great tragedian, William
Charles Macready.

The Collegians.

Drama, founded on Gerald Grif&n's story of the same
name. Produced at Chapman's City Theatre, in Milton
Street, Cripplegate, in 1831.

WiLKs (T. E.). Eily O'Connor, or The Foster Brother.
A Drama in 2 Acts.

Period, 1810. Founded on Gerald Griffin's novel. The
Collegians. Cast : 8 males and 3 females. Originally
played at City Theatre, London, July 23, 1831.

Gboves (Rev. Edward). The Warden of Gal way.

Tragedy. Period, 1493. First production at Theatre
Royal, Dublin, Wednesday, November 22nd, 1831. Mr.
Calcraft played Walter Lynch (the Warden of Galway).
Cast : 13 males and 3 females.

The O'Donoghue of the Lakes. A Melodrama.

The Donagh. A Melodrama.

McNevin (Thomas). Gerald. A National Dramatic
Poem in 3 Acts, founded on the invasion of Ire-
land by Henry II. Dublin. 1831.

Plays by J. B. Buckstone (1802-1879).

— — Presumptive Evidence; or, Murder Will Out.

A domestic drama, in 2 acts, with Gardiner as Lewy Madi-
gan. Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, March, 1844. Cast :
15 males and 5 females. Originally played at the Adelphi,
London, February 11, 1828. Scene : On the Munster

Coast.

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- The Boyne Water ; or, The Relief of Londonderry.

A romantic Irish drama, in 3 acts. Cast : 13 males and 2
females. First produced at Adelphi, November 21st, 1831.
The play is written from the Williamite side, and tells
how Oonagh Dillon avenges her husband's death by slaying
his slayer at the Battle of the Boyne. In the original cast
were Tyrone Power as Dermot Dillon, brother-m-law to
Oonagh, and Madame Celeste as Oonagh. It is a strong
play of its kind.

- The Irish Lion.

A farce, in one act. This is a very laughable farce, in
which a travelling tailor, Tom Moore by name, is mistaken
for the poet, and is invited to meet a party of the latter 's
admirers. The scene that ensues can easily be imagined.
Cast : 8 males and 3 females. First produced at Theatre
Eoyal, Haymarket, on June 13th, 1838, with Tyrone
Power as the tailor. When Tom is asked, "if he would
prefer claret, champagne, port or sherry to drink," he re-
plies — •" Wid your good will and pleasure I prefer the
fluid that contains the soul of all them drinks — which has
the dacency of port, with the tone of the sherry, the cool-
ing quality of the claret, combined with the inspiration
of the champagne, but divil a morsel of its headache at
all, at all — and that's a jolly good jug of whiskey punch I"

The Green Bushes.

Drama, in 3 acts. A strong, stirring play, full of exciting
and dramatic incidents, interspersed with a good deal of
homely, honest fun, and many pathetic episodes that never
fail to reach the heart of popular audiences. Though
written many years ago, it still holds the regular stage.
The scene is laid in Ireland and America, during the
middle of the eighteenth century. Buckstone was born
at Hoiton, near London, September, 1802, and died on
October 31st, 1879. First played at Adelphi, London,
January 27th, 1845.

Mid-nineteenth Century (1832-70).

Haines (J. T.). Eily O'Connor. Play in 2 Acts.
City Theatre, London, October 29th, 1832.

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DiBDiN (T.). Suil Dhuv, the Coiner. A melodramatic
romance, in 2 Acts.

Cast : 12 males and 6 females. First performed at Covent
Garden in 1833. It is a story of plot and counter plot,
and of a woman's struggle between love and duty. The
courting of Riney O'Lone and Kitty O'Brien has many a
sweet turn of phrase in it. There are quite a number of
songs in the piece, including, " The Jug of Punch." The
play ends in the escape of the coiner, Suil Dhuv, but
capture of the gang.

Hall (Mrs. S. C). The Groves of Blarney. A Drama
in 3 Acts.

Cast : 11 males and 5 females. Scene : The Village of
Blarney. Period : 1720. Time of representation : One
hour and three-quarters. First performed at Adelphi

Theatre, April 16, 1838. An English widow is loved by
two Irishmen, and she favours Connor O 'Gorman. His
unsuccessful rival — Ulick 'Sullivan — is determined that
she will be his, and steals her child and pretends that
'Gorman is the thief. All this leads to exciting events
until ultimately 'Gorman rescues the child and restores
him to his mother. The two men forgive each other, and
happiness seems in store for O 'Gorman and the widow when
last we see them. The final scene is full of thrills. Tyrone
Power was the original Connor 'Gorman — a fine part, full
of effective dialogue.

The Irishman's Home. A domestic drama, with the
chicanery of middlemen and laxity of absentee
landlords for its theme.

Produced at the Westminster Theatre, in Tothill Street,
London, in May, 1833. "When the piece was revived at
Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, in November, 1843, Gardiner
filled the role of Danny Scallion, an Emeraldor.

Plays by William Bayle Bernard.

The Nervous Man and the Man of Nerve.

Comedy.

Royal, Dublin, June, 1836, with Power as Mr. M' Shane.
First played at Drury Lane, London, Jauuary 26th, 1833.

IRISH PLAYS. 183

His Last Legs. A Farce in 2 Acts. (1839).

A thoroughly amusing piece, describing how an Irishman
on his last legs manages to introduce himself into a family
where things are at sixes and sevens, and, setting them
right, falls on his feet again. There are 5 male and 3
female characters, and one exterior and one interior scene.
The farce plays about an hour and a-half. Strange that
two actors like G. V. Brooke and Tyrone Power, who
were each excellent as " Felix O'Callaghan " in this piece,
should have both been drowned, and it was the last play
Power appeared in in Dublin (June 20th, 1840). The last
that was seen of Brooke was working at the pumps on the
ill-fated ship, " London," and on March 12th, 1841, Power
left New York on the ' ' President, ' .and was never heard
of since.

The Irish Attorney; or, Galway Practice in 1770.

A Farce in 2 Acts.

A solicitor take a countryman into partnership, and during
the former's temporary absence the latter takes the dis-
pensing of law into his own hands, with droll results.
Costume, 1770. Cast : 8 males and 2 females. First
played at Theatre Royal, Haymarket, May 6bh, 1840, with
Tyrone Power as Pierce O'Hara, the horse-racing, punch-
drinking, irrepressible Irishman, 'whose system as attorney
was " that there's no better way to mind our own interest
than now and then to remember other people's " — a wildly
improbable role. It is a good farce.

Egan (Pierce). Life in Dublin; or, Tom, Jerry and
Logic on their Travels. National drama.

First played in Dublin on Friday, February 21st, 1834, at
Eoyal.

St. Patrick and the Golden Shamrock; or, Harlequin
and the Sleeping Beauty.
Pantomime, Royal, Dublin, 1834. Clown — Ussher.

Gore (Mrs. Charles). King O'Mel; or, The Irish
Brigade. A Comedy in 2 Acts.

Cast : 9 males and 8 females. First performed at Covent
Garden on December 9th, 1835, with Tyrone Power' in the
title role. A captain of the Irish Brigade in his cup.s

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thinks himself King, and the real King— Louis XV.—
humours him in his pretence for a time, with the result
that many undesirable events are thwarted, and all comes
right in the end. The construction of the piece is good,
and the situations capable of effective acting.

Kbrtland (William). Shawn Long and the Fairies.
An operatic legendary romance.

Produced at the Royal, Dublin, January 10th, 1835.

Plays by Tyrone Power.

Etiquette ; or, A Wife for a Blunder.

Comedy in 3 Acts, with the Author as Captain Dennis
O'More, R.I.H. Royal, Dublin, June, 1836.

How to Pay the Rent. A Farce in 1 Act.

Cast : 6 males and 3 females. First performed at Hay-
market, April 2nd, 1840. Morgan Rattler, a part played
originally by the author, cures an old skinflint of a land-
lord of rent-grabbing, and makes the old fellow bitterly
repent letting the place to him, and anxious to get rid of
him and his companions at all costs. The undercurrent
of the farce is not very sweet, but Rattler is a good part.

O'Flannigan and the Fairies. Farce. (Revised

version of Shaun Long and the Fairies).

Power was born in the Co. Waterford, on November 2,
1797, and was lost at sea in 1841. He was the original
O'Flannigan in his own farce. "When it was revived at
the Adelphi, April 26, 1857, Hudson took the title role.

Born to Good Luck ; or, The Irishman's Fortune.

A Farce"in 2 Acts.

An Irishman's adventure amongst Italians. Eighteenth
century costumes. Cast : 8 males and 3 females. First
produced at Covent Garden, March 17, 1832.

Paddy Carey ; or, The Boy of Clogheen. A Farce

in 1 Act.

Cast : 9 males and 3 females. Three scenes. Military
and peasant costumes. First plaved at Covent Garden,
May 29, 1833.

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St. Patrick's Eve; or, The Order of the Day. A

Drama in 3 Acts.

A strong play, in which the author originally appeared.

Big oast and many scenes; plays about two hours. First

produced at Theatre Royal, Haymarket, September 18,

1837.

Collier (William). Kate Kearney; or, The Maid of
Killamey. Operetta in 2 Acts.

Played in the Royal, Dublin, June, 1836. In Lacy's Col-
lection of Acting Plays.

Grattan (H. p.). The White Boys. A Romantic
Drama in 3 Acts.

First performed under the title of The Rebel Chief, at
Lyceum, London, in 1836. Cast : 14 males and 2 females.
Period, 1798. Edward O'Brien, who joined the King's
Troops, deserts and throws in his lot with the " White
Boys " for the sake of the girl he loves. O'Brien is cap-
tured and condemned to die — a reprieve coming in at the
last moment. The episodes leading up to the final scene
are very well done. The " comic relief " is childish. The
play would revive well at a popular theatre.

The Fairy Circle; or, Con O'Carrolan's Dream.

A legendary Irish Domestic Drama in 2 Acts.
Period— The Irish Rebellion of '98.
It tells how the guardian of a young rebel tries to do him
out of his property, and how he is foiled in the end by
Con, the foster-brother of the rebel, seeing in a dream
while he slept in " the fairy circle," the villainy of the
said guardian. It is interesting to note that when the
play was first performed at the Prince 'of Wales's Theatre,
Liverpool, the late Henry Irving filled the role of " Philip
Blake," the black-hearted guardian. Cast : 8 males and 3
females. A rehashed version of this play, prefaced by a
new first act, is played under the title of Rollicking Rory.
The Fairy Circle first produced at the Prince of Wales'
Theatre, Liverpool, and afterwards at Adelphi, London,
July 3, 1857.

The White Boys of Kerry. Drama.

. Bradford Theatre Royal, October 14th, 1872.

The Omadhaun. Drama in 3 Acts.

Queen's, London, November 24th, 1877.

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Pilgrim (James). Paddy Miles — The Limerick Boy.
A Farce in 1 Act.

A capital farce, with a splendid part for the comedian.
Characters : 5 males and 2 females. Time of performance,
three-quarters of an hour. Sadler's Wells, London, April
22nd, 1836. Paddy leaves Limerick, where he has always
been getting into trouble. He changes his name and gets
a situation, but is soon at his tricks again, and is quickly
found out.

Robert Emmet. Play.

Peter Williams. Farce, with Tyrone Power as
" Phelim O'Scudd."
Royal, Dublin, June, 1836.

The Review ; or, The "Wags of Windsor. Comic piece,
with Tyrone Power as " Looney M'Twolter."
Royal, Dublin, June, 1836.

Coyne (Joseph Sterling). The Queer Subjects. A
Farce in 1 Act.

A doctor wants subjects to experiment on, and asks his
maid to procure them for him; offering a reward of iElO.
She happens to have two strings to her bow — an Irishman
and a Yorkshire lad — and she gets them to play the part
of " subjects." The episodes which follow on their con-
senting to fill the roles of " dead men " are very amusing,
and suggest to mind the two bedridden paupers in The
Workhouse Ward. Cast : 6 males and 1 female. Adelphi,
London, November, 1836.

The Tippsrary Legacy. Comedy. 1847. Written

in conjunction with Henry Hamilton.

Born 1803, died 1868. Three of his farces were printed in
Dublin, 1835-36. He wrote nearly 60 dramatic pieces.

MoNCRiEPP (William T.). The Mayor of Rochester.
A Farce in 1 Act.

Cast : 4 males and 2 females. (Published by J. Dicks.)
The scene is laid in an inn at Rochester during the time
of the Cavaliers and Roundheads, and a proclamation is

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out for a certain Countess who is supposed to have made
her escape in male attire with her page. The Mayor comes
across them, and mistakes the man — Darby O'Drisooll —
for the Countess, and amusing complications arise until a
body of Cavaliers arrive and protect the " mock " and real
Countess. First performed at the Adelphi Theatre. Lon-
. don, December 3rd, 1837, with Tyrone Power as " Darby
O'Drisooll."

Knowles (James Sheridan). Brian Boroihme. A
Drama in 3 Acts.

There is a big cast and a large number of scenes, that
make the piece unsuited to any but a large stage. Erina,
the daughter of Brian, loves a chief — The O'Donohue —
and is loved, nay, lusted for, by the Danish chief.
O'Donohue is captured by "the Danes, and Erina seeks
him disguised as a harper. Ultimately she and her lover
are spared to each other by the aid of a veteran Dane —
Voltimar. The play is written alternately in blank verse
and prose. The drama was first performed by Edmund
Kean as Brian, and Knowles as Voltimar, at Covent
Garden Theatre, 1837. The drama was originally written
by D. A. O'Meara, and played about 1810. Knowles was
born in Cork, May 12th, 1784, and died 1862.

Hyde ( ). The Irish Absentee. Farce.

Originally played at the Marylebone in February, 1838.
W. J. Lawrence, the well-known historian of the Irish
stage, says that " one of the most natural and best drawn
types of the lower class Irishman is the Con O'Callaghan
in this piece."

WiLKs (Thomas Egerton). The Wren Boys; or, The
Moment of Peril. A Drama in 2 Acts.

Period— Act 1, Dublin, 1802; Act 2, Munster, 1807. A
play full of excitement and adventure, with smugglers
and wren boys mixed up with them. First performed at
the City of London Theatre on October 8th, 1838. Cast :
9 males and 4 females. The play is old-fashioned, but
interesting.

Webster. Confounded Foreigners. Comic Inter-
lude, with Power as " Lieutenant OTPhelan."
Royal, Dublin, July, 1888.

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Maoaethy (Eugene). Charles O'Malley. A Drama
in 3 Acts.

Cast : 24 males and 4 females. Founded on Lever's novel.
First performed at the Adelphi in 1838, with Tyrone Power
as "Micky Free" — the part is an amusing one, with plenty
of drollery in it. The play is full of good sayings and
songs.

Raymond (R. J.). The Emigrant's Daughter. Drama
in 1 Act.
English Opera House, August 8th, 1838.

Pat in Japan; or, The Abandoned Irishman. Comic
piece, with Power as " Mike Milligan."
Boyal, Dublin, June, 1840.

Howard (Alfred). O'Donoghue of the Lakes, and the
Leprachaune or the Good Little People.

National Pantomime. Eoyal, Dublin, 1840, and Queen's,
Dublin, December, 1857. Howard was bettor known as
Paddy Kelly, author and conductor of an amusing paper of
weekly gossip — The Budget.

Lancaster (E. R.). The Wager; or, The School Girl,
the Young Wife and the Heroine. A Domestic-
Drama in 3 Acts.

Cast : 10 males and 3 females. First performed at the
Theatre Royal, Sadler's Wells, July 27th, 1840. Period—
that of the Pretender. Phelim O'Shanaughesy, a gambler
of broken fortune, formerly -holding a commission in the
army, is one of the principal characters. Time of repre-
sentation, two hours. (Published by J. Dicks.)

Kenny (James). The Irish Ambassador. A Comedy
in 2 Acts.

Cast : 8 males and 3 females. First performed at Hay-
market, London, August 1st, 1840, with Tyrone Power as
" Sir Patrick O'Phenipo, the Ambassador " — a sort of Hya-
cinth Halvey, who, the more he blunders the more he is
thought about, until at last he puts everything right without
knowing it, and wins the lady of his choice at the same
time. An amusing piece on the whole.

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Plays by John Brougham.

Life in the Clouds. Extravaganza in 1 Act.

In which Daniel O'Connell was burlesqued under the name
of " The Irish Constellation O'Rion." First played at
Lyceum, London, 1840. (His first piece).

Temptation. A Drama in 2 Acts.

Cast : 6 males and 3 females. See " The Irish Emigrant."

The Irish Emigrant. Comic Drama in 2 Acts.

The story and its moral may be summed up in a few
words : — Honesty is the best policy, and that the want
of means of being industrious is the cause of much social
mischief of misery and poverty. This piece deals prin-
cipally with a son who has been cheated out of his inlieri-
tance. Cast : 6 males and 3 females. Four scenes — 3
interior and 1 exterior. John Drew filled the role of
"Patrick O'Bryan " in the Royal, Dublin, November, 1860.
Brougham was born in Dublin, May 9th, 1814, and died
in New York, June 7, 1880. (He is said to have been the
original of Harry Lorrequer in Charles Lever's novel). First
performed at Boston Theatre, New York, 1856. Brougham
was the original O'Bryan, an Irish emigrant.

Home Rule. Drama.

This was the dramatist's last play — ^he wrote over seventy-
five dramatic pieces.

Playing with Fire. Comedy in 5 Acts, in which

the author impersonated an Irish character.

First played at Princess's, London, September 28, 1861.

A Recollection of O'Flanagan and the Fairies.

Extravaganza in one act. Broadway Theatre, New York.
Published. London : T. H. Lacy. 6d.

The Duke's Motto.

(Altered from Le Bossu of Paul Feval.) In which Charles
Albert Fechter appeared as Henri de Lagardere, and John
Brougham as Carrickfergus, an Irish soldier of fortune,
when the piece was first produced at the Lyceum, London,
on January 10th, 1863.

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Peake (R. B.). The Bequeathed Heart. A Play ia
2 Acts.

Cast : 11 males and 8 females. (Published by J. Dicks.)
The scene of Act 1 is laid in Naples, and of Act 2 in
Ireland, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and
the chief character is that of Fitzgerald 'Carroll, a young
Irish gentleman on his travels. First performed at the
Eoyal Victoria Theatre, London, November 1st, 1841. Time
of performance, one hour and forty minutes.

Darby O'Rourke and the Eagle; or, Harlequin and the
Man in the Moon. Pantomime.

Royal, Dublin, 1841. The Boleno Family in the harle-
quinade.

Carleton (William). Irish Manufacture; or, Bob
M'Gawley's Project. Play. (1794-1869).

Produced on Mr. Calcraft's benefit at Theatre Royal, Dub-
lin, on Thursday, March 25th, 1841, and repeated on the
two following nights. D. J. O'Donoghue, in his " Life of
Carleton," writes : — " The piece was so heartrending a
representation of Dublin poverty that some scenes were
voted overdone, and the public resenting the harrowing
details of the plot, it was speedily withdrawn." Carleton
was to have received £100 if the play proved successful,
but he got nothing. The play was never printed. Part
of the prologue ran as follows : —

" Well satisfied are we to play our parts
If you but bring home manufactured hearts
Alive to love and innocent delight —
The only goods in which we deal to-night —
They're of right Irish make and dyed in grain
Fresh from the loom of Carleton 's busy brain.
That wondrous workshop where so oft was wove
The magic web of Irish life and love."

The cast reads as follows : — Bob M'Gawley (Mr. Rees),
Larry Malone (Mr. Barry), Dick Dalton (Mr. Hudson),
James M'Gawley (Mr. Barrett), Mr. Langtree (Mr.
Calcraft), Ellen Mansfield (Miss Maywood), and Kate
Cassidy (Miss Chamber).

O'Brien { — ). Lord Edward Fitzgerald. A Tragedy.
Dublin. 1842. (Suppressed by the Government).

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Brian Boroihme. Burletta, with Dibdin Pitt in the
title role.
Theatre Eoyal, Abbey Street, October, 1843.

The Devil's in the Room. Farcetta, with Gardiner as
Thady O'Shaughnessy.
Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, October, 1843.

The Lost Ship; or, The American Steamer. Drama,
with Gardiner as " Brigadier Major Dennis
Lymerdo."
Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, October, 1843.

The King's Monkey ; or, Pat and the Potatoes. Drama,
with Gardiner as " Paddy Shanevan."
Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, December, 1843.

Botheration. Drama.

Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, October, 1843.

The White Quaker ; or, Tlie Village Alarmist. Drama,
with Gardiner as " Major Murphy M'Mahon,
Count of Hohenzelloran Sclochinblop, and Knight
Companion of the Black Bears."
Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, October, 1843.

Pitt (Dibdin), written and produced by. The Wizard
of Wicklow ; or, Harlequin and the Magic Larder.
Pantomime, with Gardiner as " Paddy M'Gunn."
Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, December 26th, 1843.

Bamfylde Moore Carew ; or, The King of Beggars.
Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, October, 1843.

Paddy the Porter. Farce, with Mr. Gardiner as
" Paddy O'Shannon."
Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, October, 1843.

The Emerald Ring. Irish Drama,

Played in America by Barney Williams.

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Petticoat Paddy; or, The Irishman and his Seven
Sweethearts, with Gardiner as " Paddy O'Grat."
Burletta.
Theatre Eoyal, Abbey Street, November, 1843.

Baron Munchausen ; or, The Genii of the Emerald Isle.

"Grand Fantastical, Serio-Comio Pastoral, Comic Historical,
Tragi-Bombastic, Dramatic Speotalic Local Comic Panto-
mime." Theatre Eoyal, Dublin, December 26th, 1843.

The Dumb Wife; or, Irish Promotion. Drama, with
Gardiner as " O'Smirk."

Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, November, 1843. This play
was performed in the same theatre under the title of The
Queen's Own; or, Irish Promotion, in December of the
same year.

The Dillock Girl. National Drama, with Gardiner as
" Paddy MacShane " and Miss M. A. Tyrrell as
" Ellen O'Halloran."
Theatre Royal, Abbey Street, December, 1848.

Gramachree Molly ; or, The Lily of the Lakes. Drama,
with Gardiner as " Paddy Madigan."
Theatre Eoyal, Abbey Street, February, 1844.

Harlequin Shaun a Lanthero ; or, Fin M'Goul and the
Fairies of Lough Neagh. Pantomime.

Royal, Dublin, 1844. The Boleno Family in the harle-
quinade.

Man and Wife. Comedy, with Dennis Leonard as
" Cornelius O'Dedimus, Attorney-at-Law."
Theatre Royal, Dublin, January, 1844.

Wood (George). The Irish Doctor; or. The Dumb
Lady Cured. A Farce in 1 Act.

Period, 1760. Cast : 8 males and 3 females. Three
scenes — 2 exterior and 1 interior. Altered from Fielding's
translation of Moliere's La MHecin Malgri Lui. First
performed at Queen's, London, November 19th, 1844.

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BosHELLE (S. E. M.). The Irish Serf. A Drama in
Verse. 1844. 8vo.

Selby (C). The Irish Dragoon; or, Wards in Chan-
cery. A Farce in 1 Act.

Cast : 6 males and 3 females. First performed at Adelphi,
London, May 26th, 1845.- The title role is one Paddy
Murphy O 'Brallaghan, a Light Dragoon, turned porter to
a wine merchant— a real stage Irishman. The farce is one
of intrigue. After many complications and misunderstand-
ings Paddy explains everything to everybody's satisfaction,
as only an Irishman could.

MoETON (J. M.) The Irish Tiger. A Farce in 1 Act.

A gentleman advertises for an Irish tiger, and hears that a
suitor for his daughter's hand is about to enter the house
in answer to the advertisement disguised as an Irish ser-
vant. A genuine applicant arrives and is mistaken for
the suitor, and when the suitor arrives he is mistaken for
the servant. Much fun is the result of those mistakes.
Cast : 5 males and 2 females. Modern costume. Time,
40 minutes. One interior scene. Haymarket, London,
April, 1846. To be had from S. French. 6d.

What do they take me for? A Farce in 1 Act.

An Irishman is continually being mistaken for someone
else, and receives numerous bribes from them. A good
farce of its kind. Cast : 4 males and 2 females. An ex-
terior scene. Modern costume.

Plays by Dion Boucicault. (1822-1890).

The Irish Heiress (also called West End.)

Comedy in 5 Acts.

Covent Garden Theatre, London, February, 1847.

The Knight of Arva. Comic Drama, with

Charles Verner as " Connor the Rash," and (Sir)
Squire Bancroft as " Duke de Chabonnes."

Theatre Royal, Dublin, December, 1863. First perform-
anod at Haymarket, London, November 28, 1848.

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Andy Blake. A Comedy in 2 Acts.

Modern costume and two interior scenes. Easily staged,
and contains a capital Irish boy's part. Cast : 4 males and
3 females. Time of performance, three-quarters of an
hour. First produced at the Boston Theatre, November
20th, 1854, with Agnes Robertson (Mrs. Dion Boucicault)
as Andy. Andy is a sort of male Nan in Good for Nothing.
He, like her, proves that hearts of gold are to be found
in natures full of impish plaj'fulness. Andy's sister is be-
loved by one who pretends to be a painter, and is deceived
by him. Andy learns that his sister's betrayer is a captain
in the army, and leaves no stone unturned till he rights
his sister's wrong and brings the captain to his sense of
duty towards her. This piece is taken from the French of
Le Oamin de Paris.

The Colleen Bawn ; or, The Brides of Garryowen.

Drama in 3 Acts.

Founded on Gerald Griffin's novel. The Collegians. A
splendid play, suitable to a big stage. Probably the most
popular of all Boucicault's Irish dramas. First performed
at Miss Laura Keene's Theatre, New York, March 27th,
1860, with the author as " Myles " and Mrs. Boucicault as
" Eily O'Connor." Charles Wheatleigh was the "Danny
Man," and Laura Keane the " Anne Chute." Boucicault
was born in Dublin on December 20th, 1822. (Some give
the date as December 26th, 1820.) He died in America on
September 18th, 1890.

The Relief of Lucknow. Spectacular Drama.

Produced in the autumn of 1862 at Drury Lane, London,
when the author appeared as " Corporal Cassidy." Also
known as Jessie Brown. First peformed, 1858.

Eescued. Play.

In which John Brougham, actor and dramatist, made his
last appearance on the stage, as " Felix O'Reilly, the Detec-
tive," at Booth's Theatre, New York, on October 25th,
1869.

Peg Woffington. A Play in 2 Acts.

Cast : 7 males and 3 females.

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- Rapparee ; or, The Treaty of Limerick. Romantic
Drama in 3 Acts.

It is a simple, though real, picture of country life at that
troublous time, full of " go " and humour. Dutch and
Irish costumes of the reign of James II., 1691. Nine
male and two female parts. Plays an hour and a-half.
Several scenes. It is interesting to note that Shiel Barry
made his first London appearance at the Princess's Theatre
as the Doctor in this drama, on September 9th, 1870.

- Tlie Omadhaun. A Drama (?).

- Kerry ; or, Night and Morning. A Play in 1 Act.
Adapted from the French " La Jpie fait Peur."

A pathetic little piece, with a genial old Irish servant,
" Kerry," to lighten its burden of sorrow by the hopefulness
of homely counsel. Interior scene. Eevived at Terry's
London, January 9, 1893.

- The Long Strike. Drama in 4 Acts.

Partly founded on the story of May Barton and partly on
that of Lizzie Leigh. Produced at the Lyceum, London,
in September, 1866, with Boucicault as" Johnny Reilly."

- John Bull. Boucicault's version of Cblman's

comedy of the same name.

Gaiety, London, July, 1872.

F

The Shaughraun. A Drama in 3 Acts.

The hero of this capital play is an escaped Fenian, and
Conn; a strolling fiddler, poacher and vagabond entirely, is
his " guardian angel " to guide him to liberty after many
adventures. Big cast, and many scenes. First performed
at Wallack's, New York, 1875. When it was first played
in Dublin, at the Gaiety, December 27, 1876, it ran for
seven weeks. Hubert 'Grady was the Conn and Eveleen
Rayne, Moya.

Norah's Vows. Irish Drama in 4 Acts.

Produced at Theatre Royal, Brighton, July 6th, 1878.

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Arrah-na-Pogu6 ; or, The Wicklow Wedding. A

Drama in 3 Acts.

This is a play full of sadness, tempered by mirthful
moments. It tells of a young countrywoman being accused
of robbery on the day of her wedding, and of her husband
owning up to the theft to free her, with the result he is
condemned to death. How he escapes from the scaffold is
graphically and dramatically told in the play. First pro-
duced at the Theatre Boyal, Dublin, in November, 1864,
with great success, and afterwards revised by the drama-
tist. The revised version still holds the boards. Long
east, and many scenes. John Brougham was " The
O 'Grady " in the original cast.

Daddy O'Dowd. A Comedy Drama in 3 Acts,

illustrating Irish life, manners, and character.

Michael O'Dowd, an old Irish ex-fisherman and farmer, was
impersonated by Shiel Barry when the play was produced
for the second time in Europe and first time in Dublin, at
Theatre Royal, August 16th, 1875. This piece was after-
wards called The O'Dowd.

Robert Emmet. Play in 4 Acts.

Produced New Prince of Wales, Greenwich, November 4,
1884.

The Jilt. A Comedy with a strong flavour of

the racing element in it.

This was the last piece in which its author appeared as an
actor in London in 1886.

Fin Maccoul. Comic Drama in 3 Acts.

Elephant and Castle, London, February 2nd, 1887. (Copy-
right performance.)

Harlequin and O'Donoghue; or. The White Horse of
Killamey. Pantomime.

By the author of " Bluff King Hal." Astley's, London,
December 26th, 1850.

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Baebett (M.). The Serious Family. A Comedy in 3
Acts.

(Sir F. C. Burnand founded his comedy, The Colonel, on
this piece.) Played in Dublin in December, 1860, at the
Royal, with John Drew as "Captain Murphy Maguire."
Cast : 6 males and 5 females. Adapted from the French,
" La Mari a la Campagne." Originally played at Hay-
market, October 30, 1849.

My Friend in the Strips. Comedietta in 1 Act.

(First time in Dublin), November 9th, 1860, with Mr. John
Drew as " O 'Blarney." Cast: 3 males and 2 females.
Originally performed at Haymarket, October 24, 1850.

Irish Diamond.

Haymarket, London, October 29th, 1850.

Steeling (Edward). The Bould Soger Boy. Farce
in 1 Act.
Strand, London, November, 1861.

Waller (John Francis, LL.D.). Harlequin Ful-
minoso, or the Gardens of Grlen-Fearna. A
Pantomime Opening.
Waller was born in Limerick in 1809.

Reade (Charles) and Taylor (Tom). Masks and
Faces. A Play in 2 Acts, with the madcap Irish
actress, Peg Wof&ngton, as the heroine.

A fine play that will hold the boards for many years to

come. Lady Bancroft was a famous " Peg " in her day.

Cast : 13 males and 4 females. Haymarket, London,
November 20th, 1852.

Calderon. St. Patrick's Purgatory. A Play founded
on the strange weird stories that cling round the
holy island in Lough Derg.

Translated from the Spanish by Denis Florence McCarthy,
1853. In the same year Edward M. Fitzgerald translated
six of Calderon 's plays,

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Geoves (J. Holmes). Don Paddy de Bazan. A Farcical
Interlude in 1 Act, but 5 scenes.

Modern costume. Cast : 6 males and 1 female. Time of
performance, 40 minutes. (Published by S. French. 6d.)
Patrick Maguire, alias Don Paddy de Bazan, attempts to
save Claretta from arrest, and strikes an officer, for which
he is condemned to death. He is allowed to marry her an
hour before his execution, and then manages to escape.

The Postheen Phenri. Drama in 3 Acts.

Cardiff Theatre Eoyal, February 19th, 1872.

That Eascal, Pat. A Farce in 1 Act.

A good farce of the old pattern, describing the amusing
antics of an Irish servant. Cast : 3 males and 2 females.
An interior scene. Easily staged.

Taylor (Tom). A Blighted Being. A Farce in 1 Act.

Modern costume. A first-rate farce. Job Wort, the blighted
being, is an excellent part. One of the characters is an
Irish apothecary. Cast : 4 males and 1 female. Produced
at Olympic, London, October 16th, 18.54. Adapted from
the French vaudeville, Une Existence DScolorSe.

■ Lady Clancarthy; or, Wedded and Wooed. A

Play'in 4 Acts, with King William III. as a cen-
tral figure in the plot.

Cast : 17 jnales and 5 females. Originally produced at the
■ Olympic, London, March 9th, 1874.

O'Brien (Fitzjames). A Gentleman from Ireland. A
Comedy in 2 Acts.

It is an amusing little piece of light comedy, easily staged —
a drawingroom scene suffices. There is a capital part in
Gerald Fitzmaurioe, who comes to the Clovers' house in
London and wins his wav into Miss Clover's heart, and
finds himself in clover. The comedv was first played at
Wallack's Theatre, New York, on December 11th, 1854.
Cast : 6 males and 2 females.

No Irish Need Apply.

Played at the Strand, London, February 19th, 1854.

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Irwin (Edward). King O'Toole's Goose; or, The
Legends of Glendalough. Extravaganza in verse.
(Lacy's Collection of Plays, 1850, etc.).

Queen's Theatre, Dublin, March 24th, 1856.

GusTAV (F.). The Conspiracy of Dublin. A German
5-Act Play.

(Leipzig Mayer, London. Eeviewed in The AthencBum,
September 13th, 1856.) A dramatised version of the '98
period, with Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Pamela, and Lord
Castlereagh as the chief actors in the stormy melodramatic
story; it tells of how Castlereagh " gets round " Pamela
to betray the leaders of the " United Irishmen," viz. —
Arthur O'Connor, Wolfe Tone, Oliver Bond, Napper Tandy,
and M'Nevin, in order to protect her husband. Ultimately
she reveals their names without gaining Lord Edward's
safety. The final scene of all is the storming of Dublin
Castle, in which Lord Edward is wounded unto death by
an explosion, and is brought in on a bier to die; he forgives
everyone, and his last wish is " that the Irish and the
English may be one people with one parliament." The
sentiment, like the play, is made in Germany. To quote
from review — " Lord Edward symbolises frank, enthusiastic
Ireland; Castlereagh, cold, calculating England; and
Pamela, the personification of female devotion, loving Erin
much, but her husband more, and inspired with a horror
of popular insurrection by the fate of her father." Scene,
Dublin.

Kate Kearney. A Legendary Drama, with Mr. and Mrs.
Barney Williams as " Ned Ryan " and " Kate
Kearney."

Royal, Dublin, December 7th, 1857.

Coyne (Sterling). Latest from New York. Interlude,
with Barney Williams as " Phil Mulligan."

Royal, Dublin, October, 1857.

Mephistopheles ; or, The Yankee. Comic Interlude, with
Barney Williams as " Pheliin O'Rafferty,"

Royal, Dublin, Deceniber, 1857,

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Irish Assurance and Yankee Modesty. Comic Drama.

Played at the Theatre Eoyal, DubHn, in October, 1857,
with Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wilhams as " Pat " and

" Nancy."

Paddy the Piper. Comic Drama, with Barney
Williams as " Paddy Donovan."
Royal, Dublin, November, 1857.

Shandy Maguire; or, Tlie Bould Boy of the Moun-
tains. Drama, with Power as " Shandy Maguire."
Royal, Dublin, November, 1857.

In and Out of Place. Comedietta. (Specially written
for Mrs. Barney Williams, in which she appeared
in five characters, including " Paddy O'Rourke,"
a harvestman.)
Royal, Dublin, October, 1857.

The Bashful Irishman. Farce, with Barney Williams
as " O'Galligan."
Royal, Dublin, December, 1857.

Amherst (J. H.). Ireland as it Was; or, The Middle-
man. A Drama in 2 Acts.

An interesting drama, describing the trials of an aged Irish,
man imprisoned on a false charge of robbery, and his being
set free on proof of his innocence forthcoming. Cast : 8
males and 3 females. Time of performance, 1 hour and
30 minutes. First played in 1857 at the Adelphi, London,
with Barney "Williams as " Ragged Pat " and Mrs. B.
Williams as " Judy O'Trot." The drama is full of noble
sentiment — the character of old Dan O'Carolan is that of a
very upright old man. If there were some more like him
in modern Irish plays they would be sweeter and less
sordid.

Pi-iii.LiPS (Watts). The Poor Strollers. A Melo-
drama in 3 Acts.

Each act represents a different country — the first passes in
France, the second in England, and the third in Ireland.
The play is sensational in character, and concerns the doing

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to death of a crusty old Irish gentleman, Michael Cassidy,
by his supposed friend and attorney, William Lawson, in
order to get and destroy a- will the old man had in his
possession. ^ strolling player purloins the will and by so
doing complicates matters. In the end the murderer is
brought to justice and right prevails. The drama was a
big success on its first production, due chiefly to the acting
of Webster and Celeste, as the Stroller, and his daughter.
First played at Adelphi, London, January 13, 1858. A
critic of the time writes : — ' ' It owes nothing to the mere
scenic getting up, the management having wisely trusted all
to the histrionic talent engaged in the representation."
The piece was revived at Sadler's Wells, London, in 1866.

BiBBY (Thomas). Gerald of Kildare. A Dramatic
Poem. 1844.

Silken Thomas: or, St. Mary's Abbey. A

Sequel. (Dublin). 1859.

Born in Kilkenny in 1799, and died January 7, 1863.

Alien, The Eose of Killarney. National Drama in 3
Acts.

"It is the history of passionate love, tried and trusted faith,
temporary ndsunderstanding, consequent suffering, eventual
explanation of all errors, and final happiness of two fond
hearts." Played at Royal and Queen's on the same night,
November 12th, 1860, with John Drew as " David
O'Leary," a shepherd, at the former, and Charles Cooke
in that role at the latter. Cast : 6 males and 3 females.

Fitzgerald (John David). The Inspector's Visit; or,
Paddy Byrnes, the Irish Schoolmaster. A Farce.
(1860).

The Irish Election. A Farce

These two farces were published in a work, entitled
OUmpses of Irish Life (Dublin, 1860). Fitzgerald was a
Limerick man.

DuTNELL (Martin) and Johnston (J. E.\ Coolean
Dawn. Drama.
Surrey, London, October 14th, 1861,

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Willy Reilly. An Irish Drama in 3 Acts.

Founded on the old ballad, and on William Carleton's novel.
Not too successfully dramatised on the whole, but contain-
ing many good comedy scenes and a dramatically eiiective
trial scene. Big cast and many scenes. Produced at
Marylebone, London, May 5th, 1861.

Byron (Henry J.). Old Soldiers. Comedy in 3 Acts.

Modern costume. Cassidy, an Irish servant — a part origi-
nally filled by Edward Terry at the Strand, London — is a
good one. Cast : 6 males and 3 females. Time of perform-
ance, 2 hours. First played in January, 1873. Byron was
born in 1834.

Miss Eily O'Connor. Burlesque in 1 Act.

(This is a skit on the well-known play of The Colleen
Bawn). Originally played at Drury Lane, November 25,
1861.

Bbough (William) and Halliday (A.). Colleen Bawn
Settled at Last. A Farce in 1 Act.

Supposed to be a continuation of Bouoicault's The Colleen
Bawn. Cast : 7 males and 3 females. One interior scene.
Time of performance, 35 minutes.

Plays by Edmund Falconer (1814-1879.)

■ • Peep o' Day; or, Savourneen Deelish . An Irish

Drama in 4 Acts.

A most exciting play, with a big sensational scene in Act 3,
in which the discarded wife of Stephen Purcell is saved
by her brother. Captain Peep o' Day, from being buried
alive. The play is founded on one of the Tales of the
O'Hara Family. First played at Lyceum, London, on Novem-
ber 9th, 1861. Cast : 19 males and 7 females. The drama-
tist played the part of " Barney 'Toole " in the original
production. Falconer was born in Dublin about the year
1813, and died in L'ondon in 1879. His real name was
O'Rourke.

Galway-Go-Bragh ; or, Love, Fun, and Fighting.

Drama.

(Adapted from Lever's novel, Charles O'Malley.) Produced
at Drury Lane on November 25th, 1865. The author filled
the role of " Mickey Free."

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The O'Flaherty. A Farce.

Played at Drury Lane, London, in 1864.

Oonagh ; or, The Lovers of Lisnamona. Drama,

with Falconer as " Fardorougha O'Donovan."
Produced at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, November
19th, 1866.

Eileen Oge; or, Dark's the Hour Before Dawn.

A Drama in 4 Acts.

Full of strong, exciting scenes and telling incidents » It
takes about two hours and three-quarters in performance.
The oast consists of 12 males and 4 females; and 3 interior
and 4 exterior scenes. Originally played at Princess's
Theatre, London, January 29, 1871.

Innisfallen ; or. The Man in the Gap.

First played at Lyceum, London, July 17th, 1870. This
play was performed in Dublin, at the Gaiety, in May, 1874,
under the title of Killarney.

Agra-ma-Chree. Drama in 5 Acts.

Manchester Theatre Eoyal, March 8th, 1876.

The O'Donoghue's Warning. Irish Drama.

Produced at Theatre Royal, Dublin, October 28th, 1878.

Floyd (W. R.). Handy Andy. A Comic Drama in
2 Acts.

Founded on Samuel Lover's novel of that name. Cast : 10
males and 3 females. First played at Wallaok's Theatre,
New York, in 1862, with W. J. Florence as " Handy
Andy." The play is weak as a drama, but strong in the
role of the blundering servant boy, who turns out to be a
duke in the end. His blundering brings about his
" making " in a way unknown outside the realms of drama.

Montgomery (H. W.). Handy Andy. A Comic Drama
in 1 Act.

Founded on the same novel. Cast : 11 males and 7 females.
Some people despise " Handy Andy," and say Lover
grossly exaggerated the type, but we cannot get away from
the fact that we always" have our Andies with us all the
samel

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Smyth (William), " William Scribble." Old Carlisle
Bridge. Dramatic Sketch. (Dublin). 1862.

Produced at Queen's Theatre, Dublin. Smyth was born
in Dublin on November 12, 1813, and died in London on
March 5, 1878.

OxENFOKD (John) and Benedict (Sir Jules). The
Lily of Killarney. A Romantic Irish Opera in 3
Acts.

Music by Sir Jules Benedict. Founded on Boucicault's
drama. The Colleen Bawn. Full of sweet melody that
never grows stale to an Irish audience. Libretto by John
Oxenford. First sung at Royal London English Opera,
Covent Garden, London, February 2nd, 1862.

O'SuLLivAN (Gerald). Robert Emmet, the Irish Martyr.
Play, with J. Connelly in the chief character.

Prince of Wales's Theatre, Fishamble Street, Dublin,
December 15th, 1862.

Barry (Rev. Michael). The Siege of Limerick. An
Academic Drama. 62 pp. 1863. (Of All Hal-
lows).
Died about 1860.

The Betting Man's Career; or, The Shade of Dan
Donnelly, and What Happened to Him. Historical
and half-tragedy and comedy.

Prince of Wales's Theatre, Fishamble Street, December,
1863.

The Last of the O'Rourkes ; or, It's only my Cousin ! ! !

Prince of Wales's Theatre, Fishamble Street, December,
1863. Such titles as the above frequently appeared in the
advertising columns of the papers when Mr. Frederick
Freebyrne was the lessee of this theatre.

King Brian Boroihme ; or, Harlequin Prince Roderick,
and the Fair Eveleen, or the Banshee of Kincora.
Pantomime.

Prince of Wales's Theatre, Fishamble Street, Dublin,
December 26th, 1863,

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Wagner (Richard), libretto and music by. Tristan and
Isolda, legendary Opera.

It tells of the tragic love-story of Tristan, a young knight,
for the Irish princess, Isolda, whom he comes to Ireland
to conduct to King Mark of Cornwall to be married to
him. Tristan falls deeply in love with her on his journey
across the sea, and tragedy is their lot in the end. Origi-
nally produced at Munich, June 10, 1865. Printed 1860.
Wagner was born May 22, 1813, and died February 13,
1883. A superb rendering of this opera was given by the
Quinlan Opera Co. at the Royal, Dublin, January 1, 1912,
with Agnes NichoUs and John Coates as the ill-fated lovers.

Plays by 0. H. Hazlewood.

The Fairy Man. Original Hibernian Drama in

3 Acts.

Britannia, October, 1865. (See Poul-a-Dhiol.)

The Ballinasloe Boy. Drama in 2 Acts.

Britannia, London, June 24th, 1867.

Erin-Go-Bragh ; or, The Wren Boys of Kerry.

Drama.

Britannia, London, April 18th, 1870.

Aileen Asthore; or, Irish Fidelity. Drama in 4

Acts.

Portsmouth, Royal Albert, February 20th, 1871.

The Four Kings ; or, Paddy in the Moon. Bur-
lesque.

Britannia, London, April 14th, 1873.

Arrah-na-Brogue. Drama.

Sadler's Wells, London, October 26th, 1865-,

The Soldier of Fortune ; or, The Irish Settler. Comedy.

Played at Royal, Dublin, in April, 1865, with John Collins
as " Captain O'Rourke."

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The Grin Bushes; or, Mrs. Brown of the Missusippi.
Burlesque on Drama, The Green Bushes.
Cast : 6 oharaoters. Played at Queen's, Dublin, June, 1865.

Arrah-Ma-Beg. Drama.

City of London, October 25tli, 1866.

Count ( — .) The Irish Minstrel. Drama,
Cheltenham Theatre Royal, June 31st, 1867.

Howe (J. B.) The Shamrock of Ireland. Drama
in 3 Acts.
Britannia, London, May 20th, 1867.

Ltnam (Colonel W. F.). Darby the Dodger. A
Comic Drama, Dublin, 1867.

(A presentation copy to Richard Pigott is included in
Patrick Trayner's Catalogue of Books, No. 18, 1890).
Lynam was the author of the series of stories, with Mick
McQuaid as their hero, that runs in The Shamrock still.

Eeeve (Wybert). Pike O'Callaghan; or, The Irish
Patriot. A Drama in 3 Acts.

A good Irish drama of the old pattern, in which a rebel,
Neill O'Connor, and his faithful follower, O'Callaghan,
figure prominently — the latter gets the former out of all
tight corners. The love interest is prominent. Characters :
7 males, 2 females, and 2 children. There are seven
scenes— 5 interior and 2 exterior. Scarborough Theatre
Royal, September 29th, 1868. To be had from S. French.
6d.

Travees (William). Kathleen Mavoumeen; or, A
Dream of St. Patrick's Eve. A Drama in 4 Acts.

A popular drama on conventional lines. Redcoats, spies,
distressed heroine, persecuted hero, " broth of a boy,"
friend of the hero, villain who swears heroine must be his,
etc., etc. Suitable to a large stage only. Old Bowery
Theatre, New York, 1868.

The Emerald Queen. Drama.

Britannia, London, July 18th, 1870.

The Four Leaved Shamrock. Play.

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Robertson (T. W.). Dublin Bay. Comedy.

Manchester Theatre Royal, May 18th, 1869. This dramatist
wrote Caste and several other celebrated comedies that won
for themselves the name of " Cup and Saucer Comedies."
He was a brother of Mrs. Kendal, the great English actress.

Pitt (W. H.). Biddy O'Neil; or, The Daughter of
Erin. Drama in 2 Acts.
Britannia, London, March 29th, 1869.

EoBiNSON (Nugent). Janet O'Brien. A Drama.

The story is simple but effective, and the incidents modern.
(The scene is laid in Dublin and Austria, 1861-1866.) Pro-
duced, Royal, Dublin, February 27th, 1869.

Howe (J. B.). The Poor Parisheen; or. The Fugitives
of Derrinane. Drama in 3 Acts.
Britannia, London, September 27th, 1869.

Fahy (Francis Arthur). The Last of the O'Learys.
A Play. 1870.

This piece was played in his native town, Jfinvara, Co.
Galway; where he was born on September 29, 1854.

The Seventies.

Mansfield (J. S.). Sally Kavanagh; or, A Tale of
Tipper ary. Drama.
Dewsbury Theatre Royal, November 18th, 1871.

Anchora Macree. Drama.

Sunderland Lyceum, March 13th, 1871.

Sterling (Edward). The Dark Glen of Bally Foihl.
Drama.

Ipswich Theatre Royal, October 28th, 1871.
The Shingawn ; or. Old Ireland's Shamrock Has

Not Withered Yet. Drama in 4 Acts.
Portsmouth Royal Albert, February 6th, 1872.

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Collins (J. P.)- Aileen; or, Foiled at Last. Drama
in 2 Acts.

Grecian, London, April 15th, 1872.

Arrah Niel ; or, The Vale of Knockfierna. Drama.
Liverpool, Adelphi, April 1st, 1872.

Clements (A.). Two to One; or, The Irish Footman.
A Farce in 1 Act.

Modern costume. A kitchen scene. A cook and a house-
maid are in love with the footman, and a quarrel ensues
over which shall have him. He soon stops them by declar-
ing that he is already married. Cast : 1 male and 3
females. Time of performance, 25 minutes. Sadler's
Wells, London, October 17th, 1872.

The Lacly of Kildare ; or, Married in Mistake. Drama.
Salisbury Queen's, March 4th, 1872.

Feecb (Maurice de). Pat's Thanksgiving. Farce.
Liverpool Theatre Boyal, March 18th, 1872.

Geoege (G. H.). Killarney; or, The Maiden's Wish
and the Fairy of the Lake. Drama in 2 Acts.
Oriental, London, August 29th, 1872.

Travis (W. J.). Erin-Go-Bragh ; or, The Milesian
Trust in Luck. Drama.
Victoria, London, May 3rd, 1873.

O'Connor (Bartholomew). The Irish Land-Agent.
A Comedy in B Acts, with Songs. (Dublin).
1873.

Fraser (Julia Agnes). Patrick's Vow. Drama in 5
Acts.

Strathavon Victoria Theatre, May 23rd, 1873.

— - Dermot O'Donoghue, the Stranger from Belfast.
Theatre Royal, Belfast, November 25th, 1878.

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Pat of Mullingar; or, An Irish Lothai'io. Irish

'Comedy Drama in 3 Acts.

(PubliBhed at " Gvecnock Advertiser " Office, Qreeuock.)

Robert Emmet, the Irish Patriot of 1803. Drama.

Blyth Octogan, February 14th, 1873.

Cahill (W. B.). Inchavogue. Drama in 4 Acts.
East London, April 21st, 1873.

Garbick (David). The Irish Belle Faroe.

Revised version of The Irish ITWow. Charing Cross, Lon-
don, 1873.

The Connie Soogah; or. The Wearing of the Green.
Prize Drama, with Barney Williams as " Corney
M'Grath " — assuming the disguise of the Connie
Soogah; and Mrs. Williams as " Nelly Nolan."

Royal, Dublin, May, 1873.

Plays by Frederick Cooke.

ilaureen-na-Laveen. Drama in 3 Acts.

Greenock Theatre Royal, February 7th. 1873.

'98; or, Faugh-a-Ballagh. Irish Drama.

Produced at the Prince of "Wales's, Rochdale, .Tulv 13th,
J874.

The Diver's Luck. A Realistic Drama in 4 Acts.

The principal character in this exciting play is a good-
hearted Irishman, Big Barney Bawn. First time in Dub-
lin at Queen's, September 17th, 1888. Cast : 13 males and
4 females.

and Waldron (W. R.). Icebound; or. The Exiles

of Fortune. Drama in 5 Acts, with Fred. Cooke
as " Larry O'Moore," head man from Bally-
shannon stables.

Queen's Theatre, Dublin, August 15th, 1892. Cast : 11
males and 4 females.

1'

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On Shannon's Shore; or, The Blackthorn. An

Irish Drama, illustrative of modern life in Ireland,
in 4 Acts.

A melodrama set in Irish soil, full of sensational episodes,
with the dramatist as " Barney," " with the Spirit of an
Eagle, Heart of a Dove, and Head of a Fox," to quote
programme description. Played for first time in Dublin at
Queen's, on August 12th, 1895. Cast : 12 males and 5
females. First performance at Reading Princess Theatre,
February 14, 1895. Cooke died November 15, 1905.

DoYLE (Thomas F.). An Irish Intrigue. Farce.

Sunderland Theatre of Varieties, September 29th, 1873.

All Hallow's Eve; or, Snap Apple Night. Irish
Legendary Drama, with Mr. and Mrs. Barney
Williams as " Eory O'Connor" and "Kitty
Killeen."
Royal, Dublin, May, 1873.

Plays by John Levey.

Cushla-Ma-Oree. Drama in 3 Acts.

Liverpool Adelphi, September 1st, 1873.

— — The Banshee ; or, The Spirit of the Boreen. Irish
Drama in 5 Acts.

Elephant and Castle, London, February 28th, 1876.

Moyna-a-Eoon; or, The Eapparee's Bride.

Drama.

Chester Theatre Royal, October 25th, 1876.

Leprachaun; or, The Lovers of Tara's Vale.

Drama.

Liverpool Theatre Royal, February 19th, 1877.

Irishman's Heart; or, A Kiss of the Blarney.

Comedietta.

Britannia, London, September 29th, 1879.

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Daniel O'Connell; or, Kerry's Pride and Mun-

ster's Glory. Irish Drama in 3 Acts.

Produced at Theatre Royal, "Worcester, June 21st, 1880.

Branson (W. S.). Dead o' Night Boys. Irish Drama.
Greenwich, September 19th, 1874.

Sidney (W.) Neale O'Neil. Comedy.

Produced at Prince of Wales's, Liverpool, July 20th, 1874.

Akhurst (W. a. v.). To the Green Isles Direct.
Musical Eccentricity.

Britannia, London, May 25th, 1874.

Aroheb (J.). Granua-Waile; or, The Bridal Eve. Irish
Drama.
East London, December 26th, 1874.

LoGUE (J. D.). Blarney. Farce.

Norwich Theatre Royal, March 12th, 1875.

Brady (F.). Willy Eeilly. Drama.

Glasgow New Adelphi, March 29th, 1875.

The Irishman's Home. Drama.

Scarborough Theatre Royal, April 12th, 1875.

O'Shea (John Augustus). Blonde and Brunette.
An original Comedietta. Acting edition pub-
lished London, 1875.

Cast : 3 naales and 2 females. Pat Gumming, an Irish
waiter, is one of the characters. Scene, An English hotel.
Period, 40 years ago. Time of acting, about forty-five
minutes. An amusing little piece, in which the " Bru-
nette " masquerades as a " Captain " in order to bring the
fickle young man who wooed her " Blonde " friend up to
the scratch, winning a husband for, herself at the same
time. " Pat, the waiter, is quite a character." The copy
whioh I read was a presentation copy to " D. J.

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O'Douoghue, «'ith the author's blunt invitations to laugh-
ter." It was Mr. O'Shea who translated from the French
and put into Irish dialect the legend upon which W. B.
Yeats founded his play " The Countess Cathleen. " O'Shea
was born at Nenagh (Co. Tipperary) about 1840, and died
at London, March 13, 1905.

'•■Plays by Auguste Creamer.

Blarney. Drama.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Theatre Royal, March 1st, 1875.

Informers. Play.

Produced at Royal, Leeds, August 31st, 1883.

Irish Life. Drama.

Produced November 7th, 1890, at Sadler's "Wells, London.

Irish Diamonds.

Auguste Creamer toured in this and other dramas for
several years. Punch once called this actor " The Creme-
de-la-Creamer of Irish actors."

LoGUE (J. D.). The Colleen Glas. Drama.
Norwich Theatre Royal, December 1st, 1875.

Stanhope (B.). O'Donnell Aboo. Drama.

St. Helen's Theatre Royal, February 13th, 1875.

Richardson (H.). An Irishman's Policy. Farce.
Barnsley Mechanics' Hall, September 9th, 1875.

Gilbert (W. S.). Tom Cobb; or, Fortune's Toy. A
Farcical Comedy in 3 Acts, in which " Colonel
O'Flip," an Irish adventurer, and his daughter
appear.

The comedy is full of genuine fun. Tom Cobb, a young
medical student, in order to rid himself of his debts, " puts
it out" that he is dead, and assumes another name at
random. His new " name " leads to complications with a
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to resume Ms own name again and come back to life, he
finds great dif&eulties in his way. First produced at St.
James's, London, April 24th, 1875. Cast : 6 males and 4
females. Sir "William was born in London, November 18th,
1836, and was accidentally drowned on May 29th, 1911.
His comic opera librettos will live for ever.

O'Connell Tableaux, in honour of O'Connell Cen-
tenary. (August, 1875).

Queen's Theatre, Dublin, Arthur Lloyd was Lessee and
Manager at the time, Monday, August 2nd, and during the
week. 1st Tableau — 'Conncll interrupted at one of his great
Repeal Meetings by Major Sirr. 2nd Tableau — The Duel
between O'Connell and D'Esterre. 3rd Tableau — O'Connell
refusing the Oath in the House of Commons. 4th Tab-
leau — ^The release from Richmond Bridewell, O'Connell in
Triumphal Car. 5th Tableau — O'Connell seated in his
Chair and crowned by Fame.

Gt,over (Professor). Tara. Oratorio.

Principal characters— St. Patrick (Richard Smith), King of
Tara (Barton M'Guokin), King's Daughters — Ethnea
(Madame Gedge) and Fethelema (Mrs. Scott Fennell).
Exhibition Palace, August 7, 1876. Conductor (Professor
Glover), Leader (R. M. Levey), Principal 1st Violin (N.
Healy), Principal 'Cello (Herr Eisner), Organist (Mr.
Horan), and Solo Harp (Mrs. MackeyJ. Published in
Dublin, 1875. Glover also wrote music to " The Deserted
Tillage."

Bbahain, (H.). The Spalpeen. Drama.
Paignton Bijou Theatre, October 11th, 1876.

OoGHLAN (Charles F.). A Quiet Rubber. 1-Act Play.
Adapted from the French, La Partie de Piquet, in
which John Hare made one of his biggest successes
as old " Lord Kilclare."

Court, London, January 8th, 1876.

Lord (T. W.). Pish o' Pogue. Irish Drama.

South Shields Royal Amphitheatre, May 22nd, 187'6.

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Plays by Baeey Connoe.

Gra Gal Machree. Irish Drama.

Britannia, London, July 31st, 1876.

The Sumachaun. Irish Drama in 3 Acts.

Produced at Britannia, London, August 5th, 1878.

Corney Rhue. Drama.

Britannia, London, August 4th, 1879.

Ony-na-Pocha ; or, Ony of the Fairies. Irish

Drama in 3 Acts.

Queen's, Dublin, July, 1880. First played at Limerick
Theatre Royal, September 27th, 1879.

Emigration. Irish Drama.

It depicts the effects of an unjust eviction. Period, June,
1880. The author appeared as " Cormac O'Reilly,"
Queen's, Dublin, 13th July, 1880. (First performance.)

O'Connor (William). " Barry O'Connor." Jerry
Coyne's Double; or. The Dream in The Fairy
Ring. An Irish National Drama in 5 Acts.

First played by the Emerald Dramatic Society at Victoria
Hall, Huddersfield, on September 5th, 1906. Time, the
present day. Founded upon one of the author's Irish
sketches. " The play is original, with the exception of a
portion of Jerry's fairy dialogue, which is slightly altered
from an Irish folk-lore tale." So writes the author in
his "Introduction." Cast: 11 .male and 4 female
characters. (Geo. Harper's Exors., Lord Street, Hudders-
field.)

Nugent (James Fitzgerald). The Dhrame; or,
Barney's Mistake. Farce.
Birkenhead Theatre Royal, July 10th, 1876.

To WEES (Edward). Shemus-na-Lena ; or, The
Speidor. An Irish Drama in 4 Acts.

Played at the Queen's, Dublin, in the Eighties. First
played at Liverpool Theatre Royal, March 6th, 1876.

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The Boatman of the Shannon. Irish Drama in

3 Acts.

Pavilion, London, February 24th, 1877.

Balla-go-Faugh. Irish Drama in 3 Acts.

Played at Pavilion, London, November 13th, 1880.

Downey (L.). Wearing of the Green; or, The Lover's
Leap. Drama in 3 Acts.

Victoria, London, October 1st, 1877.

MuEDocH (Mortimer). Cead Mille Failthe. Irish
Drama in Prologue and 3 Acts.

Produced, East London, December 20th, 1877.

LoNGHAYE, S.J. (Rev. Fr.). Connor O'Nial; or,
L'Irlande sous Edouard VI. Published at Amiens.
2 ed. 1877.

A tragedy, in 6 Acts, and in verse written in the classic
manner of the French 17th century dramatists. The
scene is laid in Ulster (near Antrim, and at Castle of
Lungar), in 1S49. Connor O'Nial has gone over to the
English. In 1549 he comes to Ulster along with his
anglicised son, Richard, and Sir William Gray. But here
he falls under the influence of his eldest son, Shane, whom
he was about to disinherit, and is won again to Ireland.
The oast consists of 13 males, including, besides those
mentioned, Kildare, O'Donnell, Maguire, Hugh O'Neill,
and Bishop O'Kervalan. The author is an eminent littera-
tuer, several of whose works have been crowned by the
French Academy.

Macherne (S. J.) and Aylmer (Barry). Derry
DriscoU ; or, The Sportsman Pearl. Irish Drama
in 3 Acts.

Liverpool Alexandra, April 16th, 1877.

La VERY (J.). Garryowen; or, The Bells of Shandon.
Irish Drama m 4 Acts.

Victoria, London, May 21st, 1877.

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The Lucky Stone. Irish Drama.
Britannia, London, July 16th, 1877.

Dacre (H.). The Man in the Moon; or, Dan O'Rourke
and the Eagle : Harlequin O'Donoghue of the
Lakes and the Leprae): auns of the Fairy Valley.
A National Christmas Pantomime, re-written and modern-
ised with local hits and topical songs. Produced at
Que^-n's, Dublin, on December 26th, 1877. Charles
Sullivan was the " Daniel O'Rourke." Why have we no
Irish pantomimes nowadays?

The Queen of Connaught. Comedy-Drama in 4. Acts.
Olympic, London, January 15th, 1877.

Williams (W.). Shadragh, the Hunchback. Irish
Drama in 4 Acts.

First plaved at Tlicatre Koval, South Shields, April 18th,
1878.

Addersley (Fred.). Regan-na-Glenna. Drama.

Produced, Theatre lioval, Cambridge, September 16th,
1878.

Travers (W.). Norah O'Neal. Irish Drama.

East London, December 22ud, 1878.

Green (F. W.). Conn; or, Out of Sight, Out of Erin.
Drama.
Liverpool Alexandra, April 28th, 1879.

*Dawson (Charles). Finola ; (jr, The Marriage of
Tara. A dramatic piece, interspersed with
Moore's Melodies.
(Dublin, 1879.)

Werner (C.J.) . Phadrig, the Bocaun. Irish Comedy.

Kilkenny Atlienteum Hall, May 9th, 1879.

Hayward (A.). Sliaudy, the Spalpeen. Irish Drama.
Barusley Gaiety, June 24th, 1879.

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Godfrey (G. W.). The Queen's Shilling. A Comedy
in 3 Acts. A new version of Le Fils de Famille,
of Mm. Bayard and Bieville.

First performance in London on April 19th, 1879, witli
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kendal in the cast. This piece was
already known on the English stage under the title ol
" The Lancers " (1853). There is an Irish soldier char
aoter in the comedy. Cast : 8 males and 3 females.

*BuRNAND (Sir Francis Cowley). Betsy, Comedy JJi
3 Acts.

Contains an important Irish character — Captain Redmond
Mclianus. Cast : 6 males and 6 females. This amusing
piocc was immensely popular " twenty golden years ago.'
Sir Francis was born November 29th, 1836. First played
at Criterion, London, August 6, 1879.

The Eighties.

Chute (J. C). Connemara. Irish Drama.

Produced at Prince of Wales's Theatre, Warrington, May
24th, 1880.

The Absentee. Drama.

Queen's, Dublin, April, 1880.

McSwiNEY (Paul). Amergin. An Irish Opera.

Performed in Cork in 1880 by amateurs. Words and music
by W. MoS\\iney.

The Fairies' Dell. An Irish Drama.

Played in New York.

An Bard gus an Fo (The Bard and the Knight).

A Gaelic Idyll.

Produced by the New York Gaelic Society, 1884.

Brian. A Tragedy in 4 Acts.

New York, 1890.

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An Irish Engagement. Comedietta.
Queen's, Dublin, April, 1880.

Dublin by Night. Sensational Drama.

Queen's, Dublin, April, 1880, with Gardiner Coyne in the
cast.

Poul-a-Dhiol. Irish Drama.
Queen's, Dublin, March, 1880.

Mackey (Joseph William). Peggy. A Drama.

Produced at Eoyalty Theatre, London, February 14, 1881.
Mackey was born in Belfast in 1850, and died on December
18, 1889.

Manning (Michael A.). Rent. Irish Drama.

First played at New Theatre and Opera House, Water-
ford, on September 19th, 1881, the author filling the role
of hero — a true-hearted Irish boy !

Shamrocks. Drama.

Edmund Downey wrote me that " he has some portion
(about half) of the MS. of this piece in a rough state
(dated 1882)."

Betrayal. Drama.

The dramatist produced and acted in both these plays.

A Eide for Life. Irish Drama.

Queen's, Dublin, September, 1881, with Mr. E. P. Brady
in the cast.

DiGGES (West). Robert Emmet. A Drama.

Produced at Theatre Royal, Leicester, on May 2nd, 1881.

Marshall (Frank A.). Robert Emmet. A Drama.

This play was written for Sir Henry Irving in 1881, but
never played by him, as it was prohibited — by request —
by the Lord Chamberlain's department. Irving showed
the play to Dion Bouoioault, who' touched it up and played
in it himself in America, without much success.

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The Suspect's Daughter; or, The Rose of Ballymahon.
Irish Drama, with Miss Douglas Gordon in the
cast.
Queen's, Dublin, November, 1881.

Norah Creena. Irish Drama.

Queen's, Dublin, September, 1881. Miss Ivy Loraine in
the title role.

Brady (E. F.). Home Rule. Irish Drama in 3 Acts.

The scene is laid in the Western Highlands of the County
Galway, and is simply a resume of the scenes and inci-
dents depicting the condition of the Irish farmer in the
early eighties. Played at the Queen's, Dublin, in Septem-
ber, 1881, by Mr. E. F. Brady and Company.

Buchanan (Robert). The Exiles of Erin; or, St. Abe
and his Seven Wives. A Mormon Drama in 4
Acts and 7 Tableaux.

Produced at Olympic Theatre, London, May 7th, 1881.

and Jay (Harriet) . Alone in London. Drama

in Prologue and 4 Acts.

Olympic, London, November 2nd, 1885. A fine exciting
play, with » good-hearted, lovable, old Irish apple-woman
in the cast.

Dick Sheridan. Play in 4 Acts.

The piece tells the romantic love-story of Richard Brinsley
Sheridan and Miss Elizabeth Linley. It was played at
the Gaiety, Dublin, in March, 1894. Cast : 13 males and
8 females.

Plays by Hubert O'Grady.

A Shindy in a Shanty. Irish Farce.

Queen's, Dublin, July, 1881.

Eviction. An Irish Drama.

Its name implies its nature.

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The Fairy Finder ; or, Larry and the Leprechaun,

Irish Drama in 4 Acts.

Queen's, Dublin, November, 1882, with the author as
" Larry." (Sometimes played as The Oommoch.) A play
built on popular lines, with each scene punctuated by an
exciting episode. Cast : 12 males and 2 females. When
the piece was revived at the Queen's, in November, 1885,
the author again appeared as The Goinmoch," Larry," and
Frank Breen as " Mickey Hickey, " a cadger.

• Emigration. An Irish Comedy Drama in 3 Acts.

A popular play, Ml of incident and drollery. The second
Act takes place on an emigrant ship. Played at Queen's,
Dublin, in November, 1885, with the dramatist as
> " Hughey " and Frank Breeu as " Jerry Naylor." Cast :
14 males and 3 females.

The Famine. An Irish Drama in Prologue and

4 Acts.

A play full of melodramatic situations, redeemed by Sadler,
a comic character, with a humorous turn of phase that
never deserts him. A favourite part of its author's, and
one on which his fame as an Irish comedian chiefly rests.
Played for the first time on anv stage at the Queen's,
Dublin, on April 26th, 1886.

The Fenian. A Romantic Irish Drama in 4 Acts.

A popular drama of the Fenian times, in which the drama-
tist played the role of " Jack Lynch," and Shiel Barry
that of " Barney the Barraeker," when the piece was per-
formed at the Queen's, Dublin, in April, 1889. Cast: 15
males and 4 females.

The Priest Hunter. Irish Drama iji 4 Acts.

JIanchester Queen's, April 3rd, 1893.

Tlie Outlaws. A story of Ireland in the days of

Charles II. An Historical Drama in 4 Acts.

A stirring story of priost-hunting and outlawry. Played
at Queen's, Dublin, in December, 1901. Cast : 12
males and 3 females.

- The Wild Irish Boy. A Drama.
Played at Queen's, Dublin, in July, 1902.

IRISH PLAYS. 2'2I

Watson (Dr. J. S. W.). The Banshee's Spell. A
* Eomantic Comedy-Drama.

Played at Theatre Royal and Opera House, Torquay, May
22nd, 1882.

Cleaby (Thomas Stanislaus). Shin-Fain; or, Our-
selves Alone. A Drama of the Exhibition. By
" Tom Telephone." (Dublin). 1882.
Bom in Dublin, 1851.

O'CoNNELL (Daniel). The Red Fox. An Irish Play.
San Francisco (about 1882).
O'Connell was born at Liscannor, Co. Clare, in 1848.

Murphy (Michael John). Shawn O'Dheer. A Play.

The Rose of Connaught. A Play.

Murphy was born in the city of Waterford on February
18th, 1863, and was taken to America in 186S.

Wallworth (T. A.), music by. The Maid of Glenda-
lough. Original Opera in 2 Acts.

Based on the composer's Kevin's Choice; libretto by Miss
Hazlewobd. Produced at the Adelphi, London, March 25th,
1882. Prince of Wales's, London, June 13th, 1899.

Robinson (J.). Daniel O'Connell. Drama.

First played at Queen's, Dublin, on August 14th, 1882.

McClelland (Harry). Brian the Bold ! And the Cork-
Seeking Brothers ! or, A Pair of Braces containing
Two Irish Miles. An Irish Burlesque, with Charles
Sullivan as " Miles of Corsica," and Thomas
Nerney as " Miles of Dublin."
Played at Queen's, Dublin, in January, 1882.

Fun on the Bristol ; or, A Night at Sea. A Musical
Comedy in 3 Acts, of the knockabout order, in
which the principal character is an Irish-
American widow — Mrs. O'Brien.
Manchester Theatre Royal, May 15th, 1882.

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R.EECE (R.), libretto by, and Allen (G. B.), music by.
The Wicklow Rose. -Irish Comic Opera.
Produced at Princes' Theatre, Manchester, May 3rd, 1882.

O'Connor (T.). The Rent Warner. Drama in 5 Acts.
Produced at Theatre Royal, Limerick, December 1st, 1882.

Gordon (W.) — arranged by. Eileen Dhu. Irish
Drama.
Played at Sefton Theatre, Liverpool, June 26th, 1882.

The Wearing of the Green. Drama.

Queen's, Dublin, June, 1882. Played by Auguste Creamer's
Celtic Comedy-Drama Company.

Donagh's Romance. Drama in 3 Acts.

Theatre Royal, Lincoln, October 8th, 1883.

Wilton (Kate). Pearl Darrell. Irish Drama.

Produced at Sefton Theatre, Liverpool, September 17th,
1883.

The Dhiuv Gow. A Racing Drama.

Played at the Queen's, Dublin, in November, 1883, with
Charles Sullivan in the cast.

King O'Toole's Goose, His Six Sons ; or, Harelquin Fin
M'Coul and the Fairies of Glendalough.

Queen's, Dublin, December 26th, 1883. Produced under
the direction of Charles Sullivan, who played " Brian
O'Lynn." (Pantomime.)

Dr. Paddy. Comic Drama.

Lincoln Theatre Royal, April 14th, 1884.

Irish Aristocracy. American Comedy.

Theatre Royal, St. Helen's, June 2nd, 1884.

GoMERSALL (W.). The Boccagh. Drama in 3 Acts.

Produced at Theatre Royal, Worcester, August 4th, 1884.

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Bishop ( — ). Banks of the Boyne Water. Drama.
Auckland Theatre Royal, March 3rd, 1884.

EowE (G. F.). The Donagh ; or, The Rose of Killarney.
An Irish Drama in 3 Acts.

A drama full of incident, with an exciting plot and plenty
of love and murder in it. James O'Brien played " Lanty
Killaby." Performed at Queen's, Dublin, in September,
1885. Oast : 14 males and 5 females.

Capel (George). Link o' Gold. A Eomantic Drama
in 3 Acts, in which Henry D. Burton doubled the
parts of " Felix O'Brien,'' an Irish gentleman, and
" Steve Gowrie," a cripple, at the Queen's, Dublin,
September 28th, 1885.

Cast : 5 males and 6 females.

Turtle Doves. Farce in 1 Act, with H. D. Burton as
" Terry O'Flanagan."

Queen's, Dublin, October 2nd, 1886.

*Hamilton (Henry). Harvest. Play in Prologue
and 3 Acts.

The plot of the play recalls the Yelverton ease of 1869 and
1861. In the prologue, a youth — an heir to a baronetcy —
forms an attachment to a Scotch lassie, and marries her
according to the Scotch law; and, tiring of her, repudiates
the marriage. In the play — which takes place twenty
years after — the youth (now a baronet) tries to repair the
wrong done his discarded Scotch wife, and is not very
successful in his attempt. The scene of the play is located
in and about a Castle in Connemara, and some Irish char-
acters are included in the cast. Miss Fanny Brough
enacted the role of a lovely young Irish girl. Produced at
Princess's, London, September 18th, 1886.

Pleon (Harry). Muldoon's Picnic; or, Irish Life in
America. A musical hotch-potch in 3 Acts.

A sort of knockabout revel for " stage Irishmen." Cast :
10 males and 3 females. Maryleboue (first time in Lon-
don), November »-i> 1886.

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•■Tlays by J. W. Whitbread.

. Shoulder to Shoulder. A Sensational Irish

Drama in 4 Acts, with the scene laid in Dublin.
First production, Queen's, Dublin, on November 15th,
1886. Cast : 11 males and 3 females. The first of Whit-
bread's popular Irish plays written for the Queen's, with
James O'Brien as " Mike Lynch," to relieve thrilling
episodes with laughter.

The Nationalist. An Irish Drama in 4 Acts.

A popular play, full of thrilling incidents relieved by
moments of comedy. First produced at Queen's, Dublin,
on December 26th, 1891. Cast : 16 males and 4 females.
Afterwards playpji under the title of A True Son of Erin.

• The Irishman. An Irish Drama.

Played at Queen's, Dublin, August, 1892.

The Spectres of the Past ; or, Homeless in

the Streets of Dublin. A Drama and Burlesque
in a Prologue and 3 Acts.

An Irish drama, with a pantomime of Cinderella in the
centre of it. The latter is introduced in the shape of a
dream of a homeless girl who falls asleep in the streets.
First produced at Queen's, Dublin, on January 30th, 1893.
Cast : 10 males and 4 females.

The Victoria Cross. Military Drama in 5 Acts;

dealing with the thrilling scenes leading up to and
attending the massacre of Cawnpore, India.

First time on any stage, September 7th, 1896. Queen's,
Dublin. Frank Bren filled the role of " Andy Cregan," a
bit of true grit.

■ Lord Edward ; or, '98. A Romantic Irish Drama

in 5 Acts.

This drama is very uneven — sometimes quite poetic, and
at others melodramatic or farcical. The capture of Lord
Edward in Act 4 is the most dramatic episode in the piece.
A popular patriotic play for popular audiences. The first
of a series of romantic dramas founded on Irish History,
written for the Queen's Theatre, Dublin, by this dramatist.
Only suited to a large stage. First played in Dublin, on
March 22nd, 1804.

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- Theobald Wolfe Tone. A Romantic Irish Drama
in 4 Acts.

A clever, well-constructed, patriotic drama, with cleverly
introduced comic love-scenes, that added to, rather than
detracted from, the many well-conceived situations of this
stirring play. First produced nt Quoen's, Dublin, on
December 26th, 1898.

- Rory O'More. A Drama in 4 Acts.

Founded on Lover's novel. Full of broad, rollicking
humour. A big cast, and much scenery. First played at
Queen's, Dublin, April 15th, 1900.

- The Ulster Hero. An Irish Historical Drama in
5 Acts, with Henry Joy ^fcCracken as its hero
and '98 as its background.

First played on January 12th, 1902, at Queen's, Dublin.

- The Insurgent Chief. A romantic story of the
County Wicklow in '98, in 5 Acts.

An interesting and exciting play, founded on the incidents
that olust.er around the name of Michael Dwyer. First
performed on March 31st, 1902, at Queen's, Dublin. Cast :
16 males and 4 females.

- The Sham Squire. A dramatic story of '98. An
Irish Drama in 4 Acts.

Francis Higgins, the Sham Squire of unsavoury memory,
has his precious deeds recorded in highly-coloured relief
in this play. P'irst played at Queen's Theatre, Dublin, on
St. Stephen's Day, 1903.

- Sarsfield (A story of the Siege of Limerick.) An
Historical Irish Drama in 4 Acts. Period, 1690.

A play full of the excitement of battle. First played at
Queen's, Dublin, on January 2nd, 1905. Cast : 7 males
and 4 females,

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The Irish Dragoon. A Romantic Irish Drama in

4 Acts. Adapted from Charles Lever's novel,
" Charles O'Malley."

A real jolly and exciting setting of the story. First played
at Queen's, Dublin, St. Stephen's Day, 1905. Cast : 17
males and 5 females.

The French Huzzar. A Romantic Irish Drama

in 5 Acts. Founded on Charles Lever's novel,
" Tom Bourke of Ours."

A rollicking piece, quite after the manner of the novelist's
work. First played at Queen's, Dublin, on December 24th,
1906. Cast : 15 males and 5 females.

Lloyd (Arthur). Bally vogan! An Irish Drama in
4 Acts.

Played at Queen's, Dublin, on March 15th, 1897, by Arthur
Lloyd and Company, and first produced at Newcastle-
on-Tyne Theatre, July 25th, 1887.

An Irish Elopement. Farcical Comedy in 3 Acts.
Manchester Queen's, April 11th, 1887.

Lyster (Fred.) and Sheridan (John F.). Bridget
O'Brien, Esquire. Farcical Comedy in 2 Acts.

Opera Comic, London, October 29th, 1887.

:Moore (Augustus M.). Charles O'Malley. A Play
founded on Lever's ISTovel of the same name.

I don't think it was ever acted or published. Edmund
Downey, in a note to me, writes : — " Augustus M. Moore
wrote some plays. I assisted him with one short Irish play
which I don't think ever saw the light. He also read to
me a version of his of Charles O'Malley." Moore was
born in Co. Mayo in the Fifties, and died a few years ago.
George Moore, the novelist, is a brother of his.

Magrath (Anna Jane). Fardorougha, the Miser. A
Play founded on Carleton's Novel.

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*DowNEy (Edmund), " F. M. Allen." Fardorougha.
Drama founded on William Carleton's Novel of
that title.

The play had an eventful history. Charles Sullivan had
it in rehearsal wheu he died. Subsequently Shiel Barry
carried it about with him for years, and eventually told
the author he was too tired to study a new and difficult
part. So the drama has remained in manuscript ever since.
It was written in the Eighties. Downey was born in
Waterford in 1856, and is accountable for 25 works of
fiction.

Upton (William C). Cuchulain. A Dramatic Poem.
(Dublin). 1887.

McFadden's Flats. An absurdity concocted in America
for consumption in the States.

Irish- Americans say they don't like it, but Americans
generally seem to — the piece is always " on the road " out
there. To quote one of their papers on the piece — " It
doesn't matter whether life ever was really as funny on
the East Side of New York as it is depicted in McFadden's
Flats; but many of the characters are taken from life with
exaggerations, it is said." The chief characters are Tim
McFadden and Jacob Baumgardner, the rival politicians,
who fight for the power of the ward they represent and
for the love of Mrs. Murphy, the ward's youngest widow.

Pat, the Irish Lancer. Irish Drama in 3 Acts.
Sadler's WeUs, March 12th, 1888.

Moss (Hugh). Bootle's Baby. A Story of the Scarlet
Lancers, in 4 Acts.

" Lieutenant Paddy Miles " is one of the characters. Cast :
9 males and 5 females. Founded on John Strange Winter's
novel. Moss was born at Agra, N.W. Provinces, India,
November 30th, 1855. Originally produced at Globe, Lon-
don, May 8, 1888.

*PiNEBo (Arthur Wing). Sweet Lavender. A Play
in 3 Acts.

A sweet little love story, with a genial old Irish doctor (Dr.
Delaney), who " thanks goodness it's no business of mine,"

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each time something unexpected turns up, in the cast.
Edward Terry made poor Dick Phenyl, a broken-down,
good-hearted, old barrister, in this play, famous. Originally
produced at Terry's Theatre, London, in 1888. Cast: 7
males and 4 females. Pinero is a native of London, where
he was born on May 24th, 1855. He is considered the
leading English dramatist of his day.

£ s. d. A Realistic Drama in 3 Acts.

The play is about a gang of coiners, and contains an Irish
character — " Sergeant O'Toole." Queen's, Dublin, April
23rd, 1888. Cast : 15 males and 4 females.

MuKPHY (Mrs. Louisiana). Dunmore; or, the Days of
the Land League. An Irish dramatic episode of
our own times in verse. (Dublin). 1888.

Mrs. Murphy was born in Dublin. She is the daughter of
Mr. Hugh Keegan, an Ulster man, who acted as the United
States Consul for Dublin and Cork for a time.

The Soggarth ! A -Romantic Irish Drama, in a Pro-
logue and 4 Acts.

Founded on the ballad of Father Roche, by Samuel Lover,
in which a priest's lips are sealed by confession, though
he sees an innocent man about to suffer death for the
crime. However, the seal is lifted from him just in the
nick of time, and the guilty one meets with his just re-
ward. An interesting play, full of dramatic incident.
Played at Queen's, Dublin, in June, 1888. Cast : 12 males
and 8 females.

Irish Eyes. Comedietta.

Produced at Kalso Corn Exchange Hall, January 4th, 1889.

Roach (James C.) and Knox (J. Armoy). Shane-na-
Lawn. An Irish Comedy-Drama in 3 Acts.

Played for the first time in Dublin, at the Gaiety, on May
6th, 1889, with W. J. Scanlan in the title role (with songs
galore, including " Peek-a-Boo. ") The scene is laid in
Ireland in 1790. Cast : 10 males and 4 females.

CoNYERs (F. N.). Wexford. Irish Melodrama in 4
Acts.

Wolverhampton Star Theatre, June 17th, 1889.

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The Nineties.

Maokey (Fenlon) and Denbigh (Louis). The Life we
Live. Drama in 5 Acts.

A play full of exciting incidents, such as " Burning Mills."
(Note — The audience are requested to keep their seats.
In spite of the intense realism of this scene, there is
absolutely no danger.) Terry O'Dow^ is the Irish char-
acter in this piece. Queen's, Dublin, January 22nd, 1890.
Cast : 15 males and 5 females.

The Gombeen's Gold ; or, Creeping Shadows. A Drama
in 6 Acts.

A popular piece, in which one of the charactei-s — Teddy
Delany — is called upon to assume five distinct disguises.
Played at Queen's, Dublin, April, 1890. Cast : 10 males
and 3 females.

Segab (R. p.). Modern Ireland. Drama.
Bacup Theatre Royal, September 13th, 1890.

Reynolds (Walter). Sweet Innisf ail. An Irish Drama
in 4 Acts.

A typical Irish play, built on Boucicault's lines — a story
of true love that did not run smooth. The chief part is
that of " Denny Doon," a slip of a boy with more heart
than head, more humour than spite, and more love thau
all. The dramatist impersonated this role when the piece
was performed at the Queen's in December, 1890. Cast :
13 males and 5 females.

■ The Sprissaun. Irish Drama.

The Shamrock and the Rose. An Irish Drama

in 4 Acts.

Many of the incidents are grotesque, and if modified
would improve it immensely, and make it an acceptable
drama of its kind — the popular highly-coloured kind. Suit-
able for a large. stage.

On the I'rontier. Melodrama in 6 Acts (American).

A stirring drama, full of existing incident, with some-
" comic " Irish characters in oast. Liverpool Shakespeara
Theatre, March 20th, 1891.

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O'Dowd's Neighbours.

A vEtriety farce, in wtich two elderly Irishmen make love
to a pretty widow. One of them gives a masquerade ball
in her honour, and at the time of unmasking it is dis-
covered that the widow has become the affianced wife of
a son of one of the older suitors. The piece is of the
knockabout order of stage Irishman type. Produced at
the Windsor Theatre, New York, April 20th, 1891. Cast :
7 males and 4 females.

Febnch (W. Percy) and Collisson (W. Houston). The
Knight of the Eoad. A Comedy-Opera in 3 Acts.

Time, 1798. Music by W. Houston Collisson, libretto by
W. Percy French. A romantic story of " Freeney," a
knight of the road, and his love for the fair " Kathleen
O'Hara." Cast : 6 males and 6 females. First played at
Queen's, Dublin, on April 27th, 1891. French, like
■ Samuel Lover, is an entertainer, song writer and artist,
and Collisson is a Doctor of Music as well as a clergyman
of the Church of England.

and Collisson (W. Houston). Strongbow; or,

The Bride of the Battlefield. An Irish Comedy-
Opera in 3 Acts.

Music by W. Houston Collisson, libretto by W. Percy
French. Cast : 8 males and 9 females. First played at
Queen's, Dublin, on May 2nd, 1892.

Sullivan (J. P.). Leaves of Shamrock. A Romantic
Irish Comedy-Drama in 5 Acts.

A story of love and villainy, sweetened by the merry sing-
ing and taking ways of " CarroU Daly," a part filled by the
dramatist. Played at Queen's, Dublin, in October, 1891.
Cast : 7 males and 2 females.

GuENEY (Edmund). Glendalough. An Irish Romantic
Drama in 4 Acts.

Sandy Nagle, a rascally bailiff in the service of Lord Mont-
gomery, hates Terence O 'Toole, a yoimg farmer, like
poison; and tries to direct his master's attention to Kitty
O'Connor, the colleen whom Terence hopes, to call his
own one day. Nagle murders his wife and hides away
his daughter, and during the wedding festivities of Terence

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and Kitty he accuses the former of murdering his child.
Terence is arrested, but escaping from gaol finds the miss-
ing girl and confounds Nagle, who makes himself scarce,
and happiness looms ahead for Terence and his colleen.
Produced at Queen's Theatre, Manchester, December 14th,
1891. Cast : 10 males and 5 females. Thomas Nerney was
" Sandy Nagle " in the original cast.

Mannij^tg (W.). My Native Land. An Irish Drama.

A young farmer wins from a wealthier rival the girl they
both desire. Bad seasons have impoverished him, and his
rent becomes in arrears. His rival in love gets the land-
lord to evict him, and the farmer is gaoled for offering
resistance. In his absence the landlord makes love to his
wife, and on his release he and the landlord meet, and in
the scuffle the pistols accidentally go off and the landlord
falls. The farmer thinks he has slain him and goes into
hiding. While there he learns that a large fortune has
been left to him, but his rival contrives to get possession
of the papers, and impersonates him for a time, till the
other's identity is proven, and he leaving Ireland goes to
America. Produced at the Theatre Eoyal, Coatbridge,
October 29th, 1891. Cast : 15 males and 4 females.

*BuRNAND Reeve, Audran. Miss Decima. English
libretto by Sir F. C. Burnand; lyrics by Percy
Reeve ; music by E. Audran. Operatic Comedy in
3 Acts (from the French).

Scene — Switzerland. When the piece was first produced
in English at the Criterion, London, on July 23rd, 1891,
Chauncey Olcott appeared as " Chevalier Patrick Julius
O'Flanigan." (Adapted from Miss Helyett of Boucheron).

Gran-u-Aille. Patriotic Sketch.

Novelty, London, March 25th, 1891.

RoBEETSON (Miss Lo Fanu). A Daughter of Erin.
An Irish 4-Act Comedy.

A merry comedy, in which two ladies masquerade as two
village maidens, and meet with many adventures, and their
" fates " at the same time. First production. Theatre
Royal, Dublin, August 19th, 1891. Cast : 10 males and 5
females.

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McCabthy (Daniel). Cruiskeen Lawn A Comedy-
Drama in 5 Acts.

Valuable papers hidden iu a cruiskeen play an important
part in the devlopment of the plot. Evictions, hard land-
lords, and all the usual ingredients of old-fashioned Irish
drama is to be found herein. " Dublin Dan," a faithful
servant, is ever the right man in the right place, and saves
his master and family from the clutches of Silas Stone,
the bold, bad man of the play. Produced, Jacob's
Theatre, New York, August 22nd, 1891. Cast : 6 males
and 4 females.

EoBERTS (George) and Monkhouse (Harry). Pat.
An Irish Musical Comedy-Drama in 3 Acts.

An impecunious Squire hopes to M'in the love of an heiress
to set himself financially on his feet again, but finds she is
already loved and loves a young fellow, who is generally
supposed to be a peasant, but is not. The Squire tries to
put them asunder, but iu the end all promises well for the
future happiness of the young couple. One of the scenes
is laid in England. First played at the Artillery Theatre,
Woolwich, November 16th, 1891. Cast : 4 males and 5
females. (Lyrics by Mark Ambient and Frederick Wood).

Vank (Sutton). Terry; or, True to his Trust. A Play
in 1 Act.

The plot centres round a racehorse owned by Farmer
Doyle, who is in monetary difficulties, and hopes to recoup
himself by his horse winning a coming race. The horse
is under the charge of Terry Burke, who loves the farmer's
daughter ; but a Major who has a strong interest in the
horse's failure tries to bribe Terry and get at the horse.
Terry pretends to consent, and gets from the Major an
acquittance of the money owed to him by his master.
On being outwitted the Major tries other means of getting
into the stable : and he and Terry ultimately have a
struggle, iu whicli Terry is shot, and ere he dies gives
the Major's acquittance, that relieves her father of all his
troubles, to the girl of his heart. First performed at the
Parkhurst Theatre, London, on April 2'7th, 1891. Cast :
2 males and 1 female. •

Claek (C. A.). Trust to Luck. A Drama in Prologue
and 3 Acts.

The prologue tells how a rebel, under sentence of death,
escapes gaol and is informed on, but evades his pursuers.

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In after years his daughter is sought by two suitors — a
true-hearted fellow, and the yillain of the piece. The latter
is forcing his attentions on her when her father again
comes on the scene, foils the villain's designs, but, alas,
is re-arrested. Fortunately, ere his life is forfeit, a re-
prieve arrives, and t)ie villain is accidentally shot. Pro-
duced at the New Theatre, Newport, Monmouthshire,
April 27th, 1891. Cast : 9 males and 4 females.

Forbes (Hon. Mrs.) and Wi-iitbrbad (J. W.). All
Hallow's Eve. An Irish Comedy-Drama.

First production. Queen's, Dublin, April 20th, 1891. An
interesting play, full of romance and excitement.

J\IiLL (John), libretto by, and Bruske (Jacques), com-
posed by. Hearts of Erin. Ilomantic Operatic
Play in 4 Acts.

Produced, Palace Theatre, Newcastle-on-Tyne, February
10th, 1892.

Smith (S. Theyne). Mrs. Hilary Regrets. Comedietta.

Criterion, London, June 21st, 1892. Sir Charles Wyndham
has frequently filled the role of ihe Irish Doctor — " Dr.
Power " — ^in this bright little trifle.

Overton (Charles) and Moss (Hugh). Strathlogan.
Modern Irish Drama.

Produced, Princess's, London, June 9th, 1892.

Woods (Dr. Robert H.) and Wilson (0. W.). Botany
Bay.

The College 1-Act Play (specially written for the Tercen-
tenary Celebrations). Time, the present. Scene, Messrs.
Key's rooms, Trinity College. Cast : 6 males and 1 female.
Performed at Gaiety, Dublin, July, 1892.

MooEE (Frankfort). Oliver Goldsmith. Play in 1 Act.

Produced, Theatre Royal, Limerick, June 24th, 1892. Mr.
Moore is a Limerick man. He was born in May, 1835.

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Selden (Edgar). M'Kenna's Flirtation. Hilarious
Farce in 3 Acts.

Produced, Opera House, Coventry, August 1st, 1892.

Smith (Lita). Bridget's Blunders. Farce.

Produced, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, August
5th, 1892.

Gould (Fred). The Father's Oath. An Irish Drama
in 4 Acts.

Another play founded on Samuel Lover's ballad,. Father
Roche. An effective version of the story, with a good
Irish comedy part, " Larry Doolahan." Played by
Chalmers Mackey at Queen's, Dublin, in December, 1899.
Cast : 10 males and 5 females. The same plot is woven
into George R. Sims and Robert Buchanan's effective
drama. The English Rose, with excellent result's. First
played at Glasgow Princess's, October 24th, 1892.

The Indian Mutiny. A Drama in 5 Acts. (New
Version).

An exciting play. The part of " Terry O'Brien," the
Captain's body-servant, was filled by John McElroy.
Queen's, Dublin, September 21st, 1896. Cast : 13 males
and 5 females. Originally played at Burnley, December
24th, 1892.

^■Pelissieb (W. Harvey), B.A., T.C.D., written and
composed by. Connla of the Golden Hair.
Cantata.

Produced at the Feis Cecil, 1903.

The Irish Land Agent. Irish Drama in 3 Acts (pro-
duced by amateurs).

St. Ann's Hall, Aston-under-Lyne, May 5th, 1893.

Mavourneen. A Play, with musical selections.

Chauncey Olcott toured the United States in this niece
in 1893. ^

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Dance (George), written by; Crook (John) and Jones
(Guy), music by. The Lady Slavey. A MusicaJ
Farce in 2 Acts,

in which the eldest daughter of an. impecunious Irish
major plays the humble role of " slavey " in her father's
household during a visit of a wealthy young American,
and the torch of love is kindled in his heart for her, and
all ends happily. Cast : 6 males and 6 females. North-
ampton Opera House, September 4th, 1893.

Mahoney (Richard). Eileen Alannah ; or. The Outlaws
of the Glen. Irish Drama in 4 Acts.

Produced at Myddleton Hall, Islington, London, Septem-
ber 5th, 1893.

Patmore (W. J.). Sons of Erin. Drama in 4 Acts.
Surrey, London, September 11th, 1893.

Ward (Montague A.) and Adye-Curran (Georgina).
The Fisherman's Daughter. A Modern Irish
Comedy-Opera in 3 Acts.

Music by Georgina Adye-Curran, libretto by Dr. Montague
A. Ward. Scene is laid in Galway. Cast : 9 males and 6
females. First played at Queen's, Dublin, on November
13th, 1893.

BoGUE (J. R.). O'HoUigan's Holiday. Farcical
Comedy in 4 Acts.

West Stanley, Victoria, February 12th, 1894.

Plays by Augustus Pitou.

and Jessop (George H.). The Irish Artist. A

Play in 4 Acts.

Produced at the Fourteenth Street Theatre, New York,
in 1894, with Chaunoey Olcott as " Maurice Cronin." *

Sweet Inniscarra. A Play in 4 Acts.

Produced at .the Fourteenth Street Theatre, New York,
in 1897, with Olcott as " Gerald 'Carroll."

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A Romance of Athlone. A Play in 4 Acts.

Produced at the Fourteenth Street Theatre, New York,
1899, with Olcott as " Dick Eonyane."

Garret O'Magh. A Play in 4 Acts, with songs

interspersed.

Produced at the Fourteenth Street Theatre, New York,
1901, with Olcott in the title role.

•''GuiNAN (John). Rustic Rivals. A 1-Act Comedy.
(1905).

Published in a special number of the Weekly Freeman
St. Patrick's Day, 1906, but never yet acted.

*PoTTER (Paul M.) Trilby. APlay in 4 Acts — drama-
tised from George du Maurier's novel.

The scene of the play is laid in Paris — mostly in the Latin
Quarter — and the heroine — " Trilby O'Ferrall " — is of Irish
descent. H. Beerbohm Tree made one of the acting suc-
cesses of his life as " Svengali," and Dorothea Baird rose
to fame as " Trilby." Played at the Gaiety, Dublin,
October, 1895. Cast : 11 males and 7 females. Originally
played at Manchester Theatre Royal, September 7th, 1895.
Mr. Potter was born at Brighton, England, June 3rd, 1852.

Harvey (F.). The Shebeen. Play in 1 Act.

Produced, Harvey Institute, Folkestone, May 5th, 1896.

''■Stanford (Sir Charles Villiers), music by; and
Jessop (George H.), libretto by. Shemas O'Brien.
An Irish Opera in 3 Acts.

Founded on Sheridan Le Fanu's famous ballad. A
spirited operatic setting to a stirring '98 story. The roles
of hero and informer were made famous by Denis
'Sullivan and Joseph O'Mara respectively. First played
at Opera Comique, London, on March 2nd, 1896.

Mabsden (Fred.). The Minstrel of Glare- A Comedy-
Drama.

Produced at the Fourteenth Street Theatre, New York,
in 1896, with Cliauncey Olcott as the " Minstrel."

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Strange (Stanislaus), libretto by; and Edwards
(Julian), music by. Brian Boru. Romantic
Opera in 3 Acts.

Produced, Broadway, New York, October 19th, 1896.

Patmore (W. J.). The Brine Oge. Drama in 4 Acts.

Dewsbury Theatre Royal, May 6th, 1896. (Copyright per.
formance).

Sheridan, etc. A Trip to Chicago. Libretto by John
F. Sheridan; additions and lyrics by John S.
Hay don; music composed and arranged by W.
Carlile Vernon and Felix Lennon. Musical Comedy
in 2 Acts.

The chief character in the piece is " Mrs. Johanna
Murphy," a wealthy Irish lady, sent for by her daughter
to make peace in the family. Played at the Queen's,
Dublin, September 20th, 1897. Cast : 6 males and 8
females. Produced in American Vaudeville, August 5, 1896.

CosTELLo (Mary). A Bad Quarter of an Hour. A
Comedietta in 1 Act.

Scene : An Irish Railway Station. A crisply and brightly-
written little episode, with Frank Breen as a cheerful
porter and big Mrs. GlenviUe as " Mrs. Murphy." Played
at Queen's, Dublin, on August 31st, 1896. M"iss Costello
is a native of Kilkenny.

The Coming of Aideen. A Play in 1 Act. -

The theme is two maids and a man. The man is a
young poet and idealist who has loved from his boyhood.
Aideen, who left him to go to America, where she weds
and loses her husband. The poet ever dreams of his
early love, though his secretary, Mary Martin — an artless
little miss — has set her cap at him. Aideen returns to
Ireland, but her manner has changed in the meantime,
and the poet is completely disillusioned, and weds Mary
in the end. It is a pretty little piece, containing five char-
acters (2 male and 3 female). The scene is laid at Drum-
condra, Dublin. First played at the Irish Theatrical Club,
Dublin, on May 18th, 1910.

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Matthews (Edward C.)- Rogue Riley; or, The Four
Leaved Shamrock. An Irish Drama in 3 Acts.

The title role was filled by the dramatist in genial way,
so as to lighten the gloom of its. more dramatic moments.
Played at Queen's, Dublin, in June, 1896. Cast : 14
males, 5 females, and 1 child. Originally played at Aber-
deen, His Majesty's Theatre, February 26th, 1894.

• The Wearin' o' the Green. A Domestic Irish

Drama in 3 Acts.

A story laden with love and murder. First played at
Queen's, Dublin, June 22nd, 1896. Cast : 10 males and 5
females.

Bateman (Frank) and Douglas (John. A Bunch of
Shamrocks. Drama.

Produced, Royalty, Edinburgh, June 2nd, 1896.

Howard (Walter). Wearing of the Green Irish
Opera Comedy-Drama in 4 Acts.

Workington Theatre Royal, August 1st, 1896.

and Mackey (Chalmers). The Wearin' o' the

Green. An Irish Drama in 4 Acts.

A well-constructed, consistent, and very interesting drama
of the Boucicaultian type,^with the scene of action laid in
Killarney in the troublous times, when agents murdered
their masters and laid the crimes on innocent peasant
lads. A stirring drama, full of humour. Played at the
Queen's, Dublin, in July, 1898. First produced at
Workington Theatre Royal, August 7th, 1896.

*Cassidy (James Rice). Hearts o' the West ! (A tale
of the Cornish Coast). Drama in 4 Acts, in which
the author doubled the parts of " Brian O'Hagan,"
a steward, and " Ikey Levenstein," a Jew peddler.

Played at the Queen's, Dublin, June 14th, 1897. Cast :
13 males and 4 females. First played at Darwin Theatre
Royal, December 3rd, 1896.

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Gilbert (Lewis). The Penalty of Crime. A Sensa-
tional Drama in 4 Acts, in which Johnny Chippen-
dale appeared as " Mickey O'Reilly," a man-o'-
war's man.

Queen's, Dublin, June 13th, 1898. Cast : 11 males and 3
females. First performed at Devenport Metropole, Novem-
ber 2nd, 1896.

Leonard (Herbert). The Girl of My Heart; or, Jack
Ashore. A Naval and Military Drama" in 4 Acts.

Scene laid at Portsmouth. The part of " Private Tim
Hooley," of the Marine Light Infantry, was played by
Robert Symes. First visit to Dublin, Queen's, December
12th, 1898. Cast : 17 males and 7 females. First played
at Surrey, December 21st, 1896.

*RiTA (Mrs. Desmond Humphreys) and Grey (Alan).
Peg the Rake. Founded on the novel of the
same name).
Produced, Bayswater Bijou, October 25th, 1897.

Maedbr (F.) and Vernon (C). Shamus O'Brien, the
Bould Boy of Glengall. Melodrama.
Produced, West London, April 26th, 1897.

*Plays by Theodore Burt Sayre.

■ Charles O'Malley. Play.

Produced in America in 1897. Sayre was born in New
York City, 1874.

Tom Moore. A Play in 4 Acts.

First produced on August 31st, 1901, at Herald Square
Theatre, New York. It tells the story of the love of Tom
Moore, the poet, for pretty Bessie Dyke; and is full of
comedy interest. There are quite a number of characters
in the cast, so that it could be played only in a large
theatre.

The Bold Soger-Boy. Play.

Produced in America in 1903.

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Edmund Burke. Play.

Produced at the Majestic, New York, with Chauncey
Oleott in the title role, October 2nd, 1905.

Eileen Asthore. A Musical Play in 4 Acts.

Produced at Saratoga, U.S.A., on August 17th, 1906, with
Chauncey Oloott as " Richard Temple."

Shaft No. 2. American IJrama in 4 Acts, with new
electrical effects, including the electrocution chair.

" Teddy O'Rourke " and his wife, " Judy," were played
by Charles P. Cooke and Eleanor Reardon. Queen's,
Dublin, November 8th, 1897. Cast: 15 males and 3
females. Originally played at Gateshead Jletropole, April
19th, 1897.

The Black Hawks ! An American Drama in 4 Acts,
with scene laid in America.

A thrilling series of adventures with a lawless gang of
men. " Mike M'Bride," the Irish character in the piece,
is a foe to the Hawks. Queen's, Dublin, Uay 10th, 1897.
Cast : 11 males and 3 females.

MuRBAY (David Christie) and Shine (John L.). An
Irish Gentleman. An Irish Drama in 3 Acts.

The plot breaks away from the conventional type. A
young Squire, addicted to drink, loves a pretty young
heiress, and is loved by her in return, but she declines to
marry him until he gives up the drink, which he promises
to do, and keeps his word. A rival for her hand drugs
him, and his loved one thinks he has broken his vo^('. In
the end she discovers he hasn't, and all is -o'ell. The
drama was plaved at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, in Jvdy,
1898. First played at Globe, London, Jvme 9th, 1897.

Art (H.). Finnigan's Fortune. Musical Comedv in
3 Acts.
Produced, Harte's Theatre, Openshaw, June 12th, 1897.

Redgrove (Roy), libretto and lyrics by; Turner
(Montague), additional lyrics by; and Walker (G.
Oastlere), music by. Lord Dunnohoo. Comic
Opera.
Produced, Theatre Royal, Aldershot, July 5th, 1897.

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Carlyle (Rita). Falsely Accused. A Domestic Sensa-
tional Drama in 4 Acts.

The first and second Acts are laid in Ireland; the others,
out • West. C. Guilfoyle Seymour enacted the role of
'■ Brian O'Donohue." The piece contains several other
Irish characters. Queen's, Dublin, November 15th, 1897.
Cast : 13 males and 8 females. First plaved at Pavilion,
London, JvUy 5th, 1897.

*LoRNE (Marquis of), libretto by), and M'Cunn
(Hamish), music by. Diarmid. Opera in 4 Acts
(founded on the Celtic legend of Dermot and
Grania).
Covent Garden, London, October 23rd, 1897.

libretto by, and Drysdale (F. Learmont) , music

by. Fionn and Tara. An Opera in 2 Acts.
Period, The Second Century. Scenes laid in Erin and
Carthage. The problem is that of two women and a man.
The dramatis personcB are : — Fionn, Celtic Chief of the
Fienne; Grania, daughter of King Cormac; Tera, a, Greek
maiden; and a Soldier of the Fienne. The composer died
before he orchestered the work, Oscar Hammerstein in-
tends producing the Opera in the spring of 1912 at London
Opera House. The author is now Duke of Argyll. David
Stephens, of Edinburgh, orchestered the Opera.

Coleman (John). Soggarth Aroon. Drama in 4 Acts.

Produced, Grand Theatre, Birmingham, November 29th,
1897.

Bond (Stephen). Bantry Bay. Play in 1 Act.
Surrey, London, December 17th, 1897.

*SiMS (George R.) and Corri (Clai-ence C). The
Dandy Fifth (5th Royal Irish). A Military Comic
Opera in 3 Acts. Founded on the same play as
The Queen's Shilling.

-The antics of " Sergeant-Major Milligan " created a " big
row " at the Royal, Dublin, on the first night of its pro-
duction there on Monday, April 14th, 1902. Cast : 8 males
and 4 females. First played at Birmingham Prince of
Wales, April 11th, 1898.

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Whitlock (Charles). The God of War. A Romantic
Cuban Military Drama in 4 Acts, in which James
Rice Cassidy played as " Dandy Donovan," an
Irish-American servant.

Queen's, Dublin, February 13th, 1899. Cast : 10 males
and 6 females. First plaved at Wigan Theatre Royal,
April 18th, 1898.

Stanley (Herbert J.). Fardorongha and the Black
Prophet. Drama in 4 Acts.

Produced, Adelphi, Liverpool, July 4th, 1898.

Maltby (Alfred) andLiNDO (Frank). My Soldier Boy.
A Comedy-Farce in 3 Acts.

Contains an Irish soldier character — " Michael
O'Docherty." This farce was played at the Gaiety,
Dublin, in April, 1899. Cast : 6 males and 4 females.
First played at Fulham Grand, July 11th, 1898.

Weldron (j\r.). The Wearin' of the Green. Irish
Drama.

This drama was performed, with success, in various parts
of Ireland in connection with the '98 celebrations.

Killamey. Irish Drama.

Produced by the Ballyhaunis Amateurs in May, 1900. Jlr.
Waldron is a local playwright.

In Fear of the Law. A Romantic Irish Play.

A rather crude piece, with a good comic villain part in it.
Full of strong situations. Played at the Queen's, Dublin,
in June, 1899.

Pelzee (Josep). Donnybrook. Irish :\rusical Drama
in 3 Acts.

Produced, Theatre Royal, Coatbridge, August 5th, 1899.

CoNYNGHAM (F. J.). What Happened to Hooley.
Farce.

Wolverhampton Star Theatre, March lltb, 1899. {Copy-
right performance).

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Our Irish Visitors. An American Earcical Comedy in
3 Acts.

Mr. Thomas E. Murray filled the role of " Colon.Bl
McMahon," an abandoned husband, when the piece i^'as
played at the Gaiety, Dublin, in April, 1899. Cast : 7
males and 9 females.

Maltby (C. a.). I'm not Myself at All. A Farce in
1 Act.

An Irishman enters a gentleman's house, and seeing by a
letter he finds that a certain major is likely to come and
stop six months, he adopts the major's name, and many
farcical incidents of a mirth-moving kind result. Cast : 3
males and 2 females. Time, 28 minutes.

FiTZGEBALD (Dan.) The Rose of Eathboy. A Modern
Irish Play in 4 Acts.

An ordinary sensational melodrama placed amid Irish
scenery, with a few of the characters speaking in the Irish
dialect. Played at the Queen's in October, 1899.

Bottle (Joshua T.). Brian Brou. A Tragedy in 5
Acts and in Verse. London, 1899. By j! T. B.

Generally believed to be by Lord Chancellor J. T. Ball,
but this is a mistake. Author was an Englishman of the
uupoetical name of Bottle, and for that reason gave only
his initials. The piece is above the average as far as the
literary merit goes.

^''Gillette (William) and *Doyle (Sir A. Conan).
Sherlock Holmes. A Play in 4 Acts.

Being a hitherto unpublished episode in the career of the
great detective, and showing his connection with the
strange case of Miss Faulkner, in vi^hich he bests his arch-
enemy. Professor Moriarty (a paa-t filled by W. L.
Abington with great skill). The place is London, and the
time, 1889. Cast : 15 males and 5 females. Gillette,
actor and playwright, was born at Hartfort, Conn., U.S.A.,
July 24th, 1836; Sir Arthur at Edinburgh, May 22nd,
1859. First played at Garrick Theatre, New York, Novem-
ber 6th, 1899.

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The Twentieth Century.

NOTE ON SOME RECENT PLAYS.

A certain class of plays that lias appeared on the Irish stage
within the last few years has been the subject of much contro-
vcrsy. I refer especially to the plays of the late J. M. Synge
and to certain plays of Mr. W. B. Yeats, but these remarks
will apply in part to some other plays of the same school. It
may be well to place on record here the view taken of these
in the first place by, I think, the majority of Catholics on
religious and moral grounds, and, in th« next, by a large section
of Irishmen on patriotic grounds as well.

An indication of this view is afforded by the angry hostility
of Irish-Americans towards the Irish Players now (October,
1911) touring the States, a hostility displayed both, as we shall
see, in the Press and in the striking form of a protest issued
by the United Irish-American Societies of New York in the
name of the seventy-five organisations which it represents.

The opinions on this subject of many leading Irishmen and
the comments of the Irish and Catholic Press both at home
and in the States were embodied in a series of articles which
appeared (Sept.. Oct., 1911) in America, one of the leading
Catholic weeklies. It is from these articles that the following
items are taken.*

The New York Sun of July 25th, 1909, in the course of some
very unfavourable strictures on Mr. Yeats 's plays, speaks of
their " Maeterlinckian atmosphere " (no doubt the " atmos-
phere " of the earlier Maeterlinck), and of the author's work
as savouring rather of Nietsche, Flaubert, Ibsen, and William
Blake than of anything truly Celtic.

As far back as 1904 the Neiv York Herald said of the same
writer's plays: "Mr. Yeats's parodies of Ireland are as in-
solently un-Irish as they are insolently incompatible with the
foundation and essentials of the Christian religion, "f

And the language of the Irish-American press— notably of
the Irish World and the Gaelic /4m (;?'i'can— during the past few
months has been no less emphatic.

At home, likewise, several periodicals of national views —
notably the Leader — have severely condemned these plays. The

* The editor, though he agrees with some of these judgments,
is not to be understood as endorsing all of them. They are
adduced as examples of a view, at present pretty widespread,
that is taken with regard to these plays.

fThis is a quotation from Mr. O'Donnell's pamplilet (p. 30)
referred to below.

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United Irighvian said some years ago of " The Shadow of the
Glen " : " Mr. Synge borrows the decadent note of Scandinavia
or France, and tries to inject it into a picture of Irish life."
Countless citations of expressions of opinion similar to this
last might without difficulty be adduced.

Even in England, amid the general chorus of praise, severe
criticism has not been wanting. The Pall Mall Gazette, in a
recent article, speaks of the " enervating, almost luxurious
effeminacy " of Mr. Yeats 's plays, and characterises some of
ifr. Synge 's as " photographs of bestial stupidity and depravity."

I shall record the views of but three leading Irish Men of
Letters. Canon Sheehan thus epitomises the programme of the
new school: "Perish the Church, perish everything, so long
as you leave us art, and especially the old pagan art of Ireland. ' '
Dr. Hogan, of Maynooth, editor of the Irish Ecclesiastical
Record, thinks the work of Synge, etc., " part and parcel of a
Pagan Benaissance," and says elsewhere : " The coarseness of
their insults to the Catholic peasantry is as inartistic as it is
oHensive. " "While Mr. Stephen Gwynn, M.P., is reported as
saying of these plays that they are " too often a desecration of
national legend and an outrage to national sentiment."

I next quote the writer in America, expressing, as he does
in the most emphatic terms, the view I am endeavouring to
set forth. He contends that the claim of this particular school
of Irish writers " to have initiated the Gaelic literary revival
and to be its chiefest flower is supported neither by the history
of the movement nor by the intrinsic worth of their produc-
tions." After bringing forward proofs of this point he proceeds
to deal severally with the plays of the writers in question.
Neither " Countess Cathleen "—a French legend whose heroine,
transplanted to Ireland, proved her altruism by selling her soul
to the devil — nor " Where There is Nothing " — an attempt,
after the manner of Ibsen's " Ghosts," to extinguish law,
order. Church, and morality — enhanced Mr. Yeats 's authority
as an interpreter of Irish sentiment. The " Pot of Broth " is
an unobjectionable trifle, and " The Hour Glass " and " Kath-
leen Ni Houlahan " are elevated in style and thought, and
worthy of better antecedents. . . ." Mr. J. M. Synge he
describes, and of course correctly,* as " a Trinity College student
of literary tastes who went to the Paris Latin Quarter to develop
them. There he made a study of the decadent French writers,
particularly Baudelaire." But in Paris he accomplished nothing,
and, some years afterwards, Mr. Yeats, coming across him there,
advised him to go to the Islands of Aran, and in this unexplored
field seek new materials for his art. This Mr. Synge did, and

* See Mr. Yeats's book, " J. M. Syngo and the Ireland of his
Day," noticed on p. 441.

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the result we sec in his book on Aran and in his plays. Of the
latter the writer I am quoting says : " The design and substance
of his plays are of the Gallic decadence. ' Biders to the Sea,|
perhaps the least objectionable, is Loti's ' Pecheurs d'Islande '
set down on the Irish coast. The root idea of ' The Well of
the Saints ' is in a play of Clemenceau's. ' The Shadow of the
Glen ' fable may be found in Voltaire's ' Zadig,' and the notorious
' Playboy of the Western World ' is a dramatization of a freak
of Baudelaire.* Nor is the form and tone less foreign than the
substance. ... In all his plays ugly sneers at the people's
morals and religious practices are frequent ; but in the ' Playboy '
his anti-Catholic animosity is openly revealed. . . . There
is frequent and blasphemous reference to God and the Blessed
Virgin and the saints; not one of the characters reveals a single
good quality, and their only moral motive is ' fear of Father
Reilly.' The language and details are too disgusting for cita-
tion." Finally, after a reference to Lady Gregory's " Ibsenistic
comedies," he says : " The trio are much Maeterliucked,
Baudelaired, and Ibsenized, but Gaelicized not at all."

I do not think that these views regarding the tone and
language of J. M. Synge's plays — especially the " Playboy of the
Western World " — are unduly harsh. Indeed, I cannot but con-
sider the production of this last play, as it stands, to be unjustifi-
able on any grounds. But (it is hardly necessary to add) this does
not imply that all the plays of the same school are of the stamp
of those particularly referred to above. Several even of Mr.
Yeats's are of a wholly different stamp. Several, we believe,
have gone far towards the ideal — not the highest, perhaps, but
still an ideal — thus expressed by Fiona Mao Leod : " A drama
that would not set itself to please through a facile laughter
and an easy pathos, but through the magic of legendary asso-
ciations and the spell of a timeless imagination, working within
a passionate nationalism of mind and spirit."

Moreover, as regards the dramatic and literary value of the
late Mr. Synge's plays, not all of those who hold the views
above expressed are at one. Whatever may be said about their
dramatic merits, I think it would be hard to deny a certain
beauty to their literary style. The talk of the Irish peasant is
at times shot through with a strange poetic imaginativeness.
It abounds in quaint turns, idioms, and images unknown to
English. These peculiarities the dramatist has reproduced and
accentuated. And it is little wonder that to audiences strangers
to. the Gaedhaltacht his work should appeal with a sense of

* The credit for these identifications is entirely due to Mr. D.
J. O'Donoghue, who first made them in his article of August,
1911, referred to below.

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delightful freshness and originality. But his peasants are seen
through a distorted medium. He himself has been known to
admit in private life that the Connaoht peasant whom he put
upon the ^tage was not the peasant as he existed in real life,
but the writer's own literary fancies set amidst Connacht
surroundings. — Ep.]

Since the above was put in type much additional matter
bearing on the subject has come under the writer's notice,
some of which hate already been referred to in footnotes. The
earliest in point of date is Mr. F. H. O'Donnell's pamphlet,
" The Stage Irishman of the Pseudo Celtic Drama, 1904."
Nothing said by the American papers above quoted exceeds in
severity the strictures which this author passes on Mr. Yeats 's
plays — J. M. Synge was then barely on the horizon. He speaks
of them as "a sort of Maeterlinckian-Ibsenitish-Baudelairian
drama," and finds (see p. 25) sneers and blasphemies against
religion " scattered with full hands in Mr. Yeats 's principal
plays."

In the Irish Daily Independent of August 21st, 1911, a tem-
perate but damaging piece of criticism was published by Mr. D.
J. O'Donoghue, Librarian of the National University, and a
well-known literary man. The article points out specificallj' the
foreign origin of Mr. Synge 's plots, and the deficiencies of some
of them from the dramatic standpoint. It created a considerable
stir at the time of its appearance.

About the middle of December, 1911, the Rev. George O'Neill,
S.J., M.A., delivered before the Students' National Literary
Society a remarkable lecture, afterwards published in the Irish
Catholic for December 23rd, and soon, we understand, to be
issued in pamphlet form. It is a moderate and thoughtful
discussion of the clain^s of these plays to be Irish in theme
and spirit. The conclusion is decisively against these claims.

Meanwhile articles in which the highest and often the most
extravagant praise is given to J. M. Synge's plays continue to
appear in English periodicals. Meanwhile the hostile attitude
of the Irish people in America has become more and more
ncccntuated.

Plays by \V. B. Yeats (1865).

For Mr. Yeats's views on the drama see (1) The introduc-
tions to some of his plays. (2) Some of the essays in
" Ideas of Good and Evil," a note on which will be found
on p. 19. (3) Criticisms scattered through the pages of
Deltaine (1899-1900), the organ of the Irish Literary

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Theatre, and of Samhain (1901—), the organ of the Irish
National Theatre Society. (4) oh. iv. of W. B. Yeats and
the Irish Literary Revival, by H. S. Krans. See p. 44.

N.B. — It has been thought well to place Mr. Yeats's plays
in this position, as though his first play ^^'^s acted as far
back as 1894, the bulk of his dramatic %vork belongs to a
much later date.

- The Land of Heart's Desire.^ A Verse Play in
1 Act.

A vpife -willingly leaves all her earthly happiness to follow
the call of the " good people " to the land of heart's desire.
The poet has put much beautiful poetry into his conceit.
First played at the Globe, London, on March 29th, 1894.
Cast : 3 males, 2 females, and a little girl. Revived at the
Abbey on February 16th, 1911.

- — The Countess Cathleen." A Miracle Play in Verse
in 3 Acts.

The play's action takes place during a terrible time of
famine in Ireland in the " once upon a time " period of
the country's existence. A noble young Countess, the
beloved of all around her, seeing her people die and she
incapable of relieving them, sells her soul to demons in
order that the starving peasantry may have food for their
relief, for this heroic deed of self-sacrifice the lovely lady
is ultimately saved, and the demons cheated out of their
prey. This piece was first produced at the Antient Concert
Rooms, Dublin, on May 8th, 1899, by the Irish Literary
Theatre, when a number of young college students thought
well to create a hostile demonstration, as they did not
think " the means justified the end " in the case of the
fair Countess's bargain. It is really a beautiful work, and
would well repay revival. The cast is made up of 9 male
and 6 female characters. It was published in book form,
along vcith " Various Legends and Lyrics," in 1892.
Revived (a new version with mediaeval setting) at Abbey,
on December 14th, 1911, with Marie O'Neill in the title
role. A French writer originated the story*

^" Turns on another revolting burlesque of Catholic religion.
. . Instinct with deehristianisation. " — F. H. O'Donnell.

2 " A ridiculous and ofFensive absurdity." — F. H. O'Donnell.

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- and Moore (George). Diarmid and Grania. A
Romantic Irish Play in 3 Acts.

First produced by the Benson Company at the Gaiety
Theatre, Dublin, under the auspices of the Irish Literary
Theatre, on October 21st, 1901. The legend of the flight
of Grania with Diarmid from Fionn, and the latter's search
through Ireland for the wanderers, ending in the death of
Diarmid from the savage onslaught of a wild boar, is
graphically and picturesquely set forth in this piece. The
cast is a lengthy one. Incidental m^usic by Sir Edward
Elgar.*

- Kathleen ni Houlihan. A Prose Play in 1 Act.

The poet dreamed a dream and wove it into this beautiful
patriotic little play. The old woman — Kathleen ni Houli-
han — stands for Ireland, and fires the heart of the young
peasant on the eve of his wedding, so that he forgets even
his bride-elect to serve her — his country. It is an inspir-
ing play, with a cast of 6 (3 males and 3 females). It was
first played by the Irish National Theatre Society in Dublin
on April 2nd, 1902, and has remained very popular ever

A Pot of Broth. A Farce in 1 Act.

In this mei-ry trifle a beggarman fools a tight-fisted
countrywoman into giving him a meal by the aid of a stone,
he said, that could make broth. The part of " The Beggar-
man " is a capital part for an actor with a natural turn for
broad comedy. W. G. Fay created the part in the Antient
Concert Booms on October 80th, 1902,

The Hour Glass. A 1-Act Morality Play,

This is a gem in its way, and tells of a Wise Man who has
sown the seed of unbelief all around him, until an angei
appears to him and tells him he will die within the hour
and be lost if he finds not one who believes within that
time. Just as the sands of the hour glass are run down,
and he is in despair, he finds in a " Fool " a believer, and
he is saved. There is a beauty and a pathos about the
play that invariably grips an audience; and the role of

1 "People said [of this play] and not without reason, thai
Mr. Moore and Mr. Yeats had gone to Irish legend to find in
epic tradition the plot of an average French novel." — Mr.
Stephen Gwynn in 1901.

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" The Wise Man " is splendidly dramatic. Four principal
and some minor parts make up the cast. It was first
played in the Molesworth Hall on March 14th, 1903.

On the King's Threshold. A Verse Play in 1 Act.

A poet who has been refused liis place at the King's
. table resolves to die on the King's threshold, to assert the
ancient rights of the poets. All fruits fail to shake him
from his resolve, and sooner than suffer such a disgrace
the King restores him to his rightful place again. It was
first played by the Irish National Theatre Society, at the
Molesworth Hall, on October 8th, 1903, and was afterwards
revised and played at the Abbey. The role " Seanchan,"
the poet, is a fine one for an actor with a musical voice
and elocutionary skill to use it properly. The cast con-
tains 17 characters. Frank J. Fay made a memorable
Seanchan in original cast.

- — The Shadowy Waters. A Play in 1 Act in Verse.
(1st ed., 1901).

This is more a poem set in dramatic form than a drama
cast in poetic mould. It is a strange, weird, evasive thing
when seen on the stage. Forgall sets sail on mysterious
" shadowy waters," and there comes across a strange ship,
which he captures, and kills all on board, save one, a
beautiful Queen, whom he instantly falls in love with. His
strong will compels her to love him in return, and cutting
himself adrift from the captured vessel and his crew who
now man it, he sails into the unknown seas with his cap-
tured Queen by liis side. There is something uncanny,
yet beautiful, about this poem-play, which requires very
delicate treatment from the players. The scene is laid on
board of the drifting galley. There are four characters and
some sailors in the oast. The play was first produced at
the Molesworth Hall, I)ublin, on January 14th, 1904, by
the Irish National Theatre Society.

On Baile's Strand. A Verse Play in 1 Act.

It tells of how Cuchulain slays his own son without his
knowing whom, he has slain, and when it comes to his
knowledge what he has done, grief overtakes him, and, un-
hinging his mind, he rushes towards the sea on Baile's
Strand, and is drowned fighting the waves. There are six
principal parts in the play, and a group of minor ones. It
was first played at the opening night of the Abbey, Decern-

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ber 27th, 1905. Yeats's first, attempt at drama in poetic
form appeared in The Dublin University Review, June,
1880 — Mosada, a story of the Inquisition in Arabia. This
little piece was shortly afterwards published in pamphlet
form, at 6d. Now it brings £5 a copy. There was a
strange portrait of the poet, with beard, by his fathet, J.
B. Yeats, as a frontispiece.

— Deir'dre. A Legendary Verse Play in 1 Act.
(Plays for an Irish Theatre, vol 5), pp. 56. (A
H. Bullen). 3/6.

It treats in poetic and dramatic way the tragic result of
the return of Deirdre and Naisi to Emain Mecha. It is con-
sidered one of its authors most successful essays in drama;
and such well-known actresses as Miss Darragh, Miss Mona
Limerick, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Miss Marie O'Neill, and
Miss Sara Allgood, have already interpreted the title role,
which is a really fine tragic part. It was first played at
the Abbey on November 24th, 1906, and its cast contains
9 parts (4 male and 5 female).

— Where There is Nothing. Drama in 5 Acts.

In this strange play, a gentleman, Paul Euttledge, is
against society and all things as they are, and, in the end
is killed for his pains. It was first performed by the Stage
Society, in London, on 26th June, 1904. It contains 26
characters and 6 scenes. The dramatist, assisted by Lady
Gregory, remoulded this play into 3 Acts, and re-named it
The Unicorn from the Stars. The latter version first saw
light at the Abbey on November 21st, 1907.

— The Green Helmet. A Play in Ballad Metre in
1 Act,

The scene of this play is set in Ulster, in the Heroic Age
when Cuchulain and the other legendary heroes held sway.
It has for its kernel — ^the eternal differences of opinion and
quarrels of our people, and is full of weirdness and beauty.
It was first staged at the Abbey oh February 10th, 1910.
A, version of the same piece in prose, entitled, TJie Oolden
Helmet, first saw light on March 20th, 1908. It was then
styled " an heroic farce." The cast comprises 5 male
and 3 female parts, and several scullions, horse boys, and
blackmen. It is a (rarity to get a play in ballad metre 1

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*Plays by Edward Martyn.

The Heather Field. A Play in 3 Acts.

This fine play, modelled on the lines of Ibsen drama, is a
most impressive work when well played. The central
figure — a man who stakes all his wealth and energy on
the reclamation of a heather field, only to find that, after
all, the heather breaks out afresh and all his work comes
to nought — is a great acting one. The drama when first
played by the Irish Literary Theatre on May 9th, 1899,
at Antient Concert Rooms, made a big hit, chiefly owing
to the superb playing of Thomas Kingston in the prin-
cipal role. The play is easily staged, only one interior
scene being required. The cast contains 7 male and 2
female parts. Thomas Kingston died August 2nd, 1911.
Martyn was born at Masonbrook, near Loughrea, County
Galway, on January 31st, 1859.

MsBve. A Psychological Drama in 3 Acts.

The chief character is a girl who sighs for the Land of the
Ever Young, and goes out of her father's home on the
morning of her marriage to seek the glorious region of her
heart's desire over the hills and far away. There is much
that is beautiful in this play, but it scarcely convinces
when realised on the stage. The Irish Literary Theatre
first played it at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, on February
19th, 1900.

- The Enchanted Sea. A Play in 4 Acts.

An ambitious woman stops at nothing to gain a lord for
her daughter, and draws a blank in the end and commits
suicide. The play is gloomy and mystic, and does not
take kindly to the stage. It was first produced by The
Players' Club at the Antient Concert Kooms, Dublin, on
April 18th, 1904.

■ The Tale of a town. A Play in 5 Acts.

Is founded on the same theme as The Bending of the
Bough. The National Players introduced Martyn 's version
at tiie Molesworth Hall, Dublin, on October 31st, 1905,
when it met with much success. The cast is a large one —
15, with " supers."

The Placehunters. 1-Act Play.

A satirical squib more than a dramatic work. Published
in The Leader for July 26th, 1902. Not yet acted.

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••'Plaj's by Alice Milligan.

The Last Feast of the Fianna. A Legendary

Play in Verse and in 1 Act. Published by Nutt.
Gd.

It tells how Oisin, charmed by the fairy princess, Niamh,
follows het into the Land of the Ever Young, leaving his
parents, Grainne and Fionn, to mourn his loss. The
scene is laid " In Fionn's Dun," and two female and four
male characters, with a number of bondswomen and
warriors, make up the cast. This little piece was produced
the same night as Meeve (February 19th, 1900). It is full
of the music of sweet speech.

The Harp that Once. A '98 Play in 2 Acts.

Played at the dawn of the Twentieth Century, at the
Antient Concert Rooms, with Frank Fay and Sara Allgood
in the cast. First played at Antient ConSert Eooms,
Dublin, 26th August, 1901.

The Escape of Bed Hugh. An Historical Drama

in 2 Acts.

Contains many stirring and dramatic episodes. Played in
Dublin, by the National Players, in October, 1904.

The Last of the Desmonds. A Bi-lingual Irish

Historical Play.

The story of Red Hugh O'Donnell's wooing. First played
by the Cork National Theatre Society, on March 6th, 1905.

Oisin in Tir-na-nOg, and Oisin and Padraic.

Legendary Plays in Verse in 1 Act, forming parts
two and three in a dramatic triology, with The
Last Feast of the Fianna as the opening part.

The latter has been often played, but not so either of the
other two parts. Miss Milligan is a native of Omagh, Co.
Tyrone.

The Daughter of Oonagh. A Melodrama on some

Acts of the Cromwellian Perio'd.

Published in the Vnited Irishman.

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• The Green upon the Cape. A short Historkal

Play.

An incident of the visit of Wolfe Tone to the Hague.

Brian of Banba. Short Historical Play in

poetic form.

The French are on the Sea. A '98 Drama in 5

Acts. (Unpublished.)

*Fagan (James B.). The Eebels. A Eomantic Irish
Play in 4 Acts.

Pull of exciting and unexpected developments. The scene
is laid in Wieklow, in the year '98. The story woven
round the Rebellion is one of the love of two men for a
maid — a rebel and a soldier — the former the chosen one
and the latter his deadly enemy in consequence. Of course,
the rebel is uppermost in the end. Played at the Gaiety,
Dublin, in October, 1899. Originally played at Camberwell
Metropole, September 4th, 1899.

. The Earth. Plav in -4 Acts.

The plot of this clever play is centred round the power of
modern journalism, and one of the characters is an Irish
journalist. London is the scene of action. Produced for
the first time at Torquay Opera House, April 8th, 1909.

Marman (Fred.). The Patriot's Wife. A Historical,
Eealistic Drama in 4 Acts.

A tale of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Exciting, interesting,
and stirring melodrama. Well written and well con-
structed, with more romance than humour in it, and an
unnecessary third act. The story of Kathleen McGrath's
undying love for Myles Byrne, the rebel, and scorn for his
black-hearted persecutor and rival. Captain Huntor-Gowan,
of the Wexford Yeomanry, is most dramatically and
picturesquely told. Played at the Queen's, Dublin, in
February, 1900.

Trooper Hunt's Widow. A Farcical Comedy in

3 Acts, in which Joseph Hunt impersonates " an
Irish Widow," after the manner of " Charley's
Aunt " in the famous comedy of that name.
Cast : 6 males and 3 females.

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*MooRE (George). The Bending of the Bough. A
Comedy in 5 Acts.

A play, chock-full of topical satire as to the relations of
the " old country " to those of the "sister isle." Though
propagandist in spirit, the comedy dramatically is very fine,
and contains many good acting parts. The Irish Literary
Theatre ■was accountable for its stage birth at the Gaiety
Theatre, Dublin, February 20th, 1900. Jlr. Moore is the
son of the late George Henry Moore, of Jloore Hall, Co.
Mayo.

Dear Hearts of Ireland. Drama in 3 Acts.
Peekhalii, Crown, December 3id, 1900.

Walleston (Miles) and Gilbert (Francis). A Lon-
don Arab. Drama in 4 Acts, in which " Micky
Stiles, Z. 97," disported himself with song, in the
person of Dan Fitzgerald.

Queen's, Dublin, November 5th, 1900. Cast : 13 males
and 6 females. First production Folkstown Pleasure
Gardens, March 20th, 1899.

Thomas (Augustus). Oliver Goldsmith. Play.

Produced in America in 1900. Thomas is an American
playwright. Born at St. Louis, Mon., January 8th, 1850.

Sullivan (Arthur) and German (Edward), music by;
Hood (Basil), written by. The Emerald Isle; or,
The Caves of Carrig-Gleena. A Comic Opera in
2 Acts.

Period, about 100 years ago. Cast : 9 males and 7 females.
Vocal score published by Chappell. Produced, Savoy,
London, April 27th, 1901.

Grange (A. Demain). At the Easing of the Moon. Irish
Romance in 1 Act.

Produced, Netting Hill, Coronet Theatre, London, April
1st, 1901.

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*Jessop (G. H.), books and lyrics by; ^-^ Jones (Sidney),
music by; Gbeenbank (Percy) and Taylor
(Charles H.)., additional lyrics by. My Lady
Molly. Comedy Opera in 2 Acts, with " Mickey
O'Dowd," a servant to " My Lady," in the cast.

Lady Molly stoops to conquer, somewhat after the manner
of Miss Hardeastle in Goldsmith's famous comedy, She
Stoops to Conquer. Cast : 10 males and 7 females. First
produced £ft Brighton Theatre Eoyal, August, 1902.

*Plays by Standish O'Gbady.

Hugh Roe O'Donnell. A Sixteen Century Irish

Historical Play (Nelson and Knox, Belfast).

Performed in the Woods of Sheestown, in the County of
Kilkenny, on August 15th, 1902. Twelve scenes, and over
twenty characters. The play is full of stately diction and
effective tableaux.

The Transformation of Fionn. A Legendary Play

in 1 Act.

In it a Fairy entices Fionn to plunge into the magic lake
to find for her a ring she says she has lost therein. Old
age comes upon him instantly, and his companions know
him not, save one, who has been sprinkled with the magic
waters himself. He calls on the fair enchantress to release
Fionn from the spell, which she ultimately does. The
scene is Ifiid by the Lake of Slieve Gullion. Cast : 3 males,
1 female, and a number of warriors.

Fionn — a Masque.

Performed in the open air, at Kilkenny, in 1907.

■ The Coming of Fionn. In 1 Scene.

Performed by the boys at St. Enda's School on April 9th,
1900. A noble, heroic fragment, beiug really only an
episode in his Masque of Fionn.

*Dunoan (James). A Gallant of Galway. A Romantic
Play in 2 Acts.

The scene is laid in Galway in 1750. It is full of love and
adventure, and contains nine characters — 6 males and 3
females. First played at National Literary Society, Dublin,
on March 24th, 1902.

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*Plays by Seumas O'Cuisin (James H. CoU'Sins).

The Sleep of the King. An Allegory in 1 Act.

A slight poetic trifle, with not much dramatic backbone in
it. First produced at Antient Concert Booms by the Irish
National Theatre Society on October 29th, 1902. It con-
cerns the King of Ireland's son of ancient story, and the
action takes place among trees in twilight, near the Hill
of Usna. There are only four characters in the piece.

TheEacing Lug. A 1-Act Play of real life.

This tragic little episode is laid in a North of Ireland fish-
ing village, and makes instant appeal to the emotions of the
spectators. It depicts the sorrows in the lives of those who
go down to the sea in boats, and of how the foolhardy
hoisting of a " racing lug " in the teeth of the gale brings
desolation to a fisherman's home. On October 31st, 1902,
the little tearful tale of the sea was first played at Antient
Concert Booms, Dublin. Five characters make up the
oast — 3 male and 2 female. It is a little play that " grips "
when sincerely played.

The Sword of Dermot. A Romantic Irish Play

in Verse and 3 Acts.

Time, the Fifteenth Century. Place, the Fortress of The
McDermot, on Dermot Bock, an island on Loch Ce, near
Boyle, Co. Boscommon. Tells of the tragic consequences
resulting from the possession of the sword of Dermot. It
was first played at National Literary Societv, April 20th,
1903.

■ A Man's Foe. A 1-Act Play.

Depicting the horrible grip that drink possesses when once
it gets hold on its victim. It is a propagandist play of
dramatic merit. Presented by the National Players at the
Molesworth Hall on November 3rd, 1903. The scene is
laid in Dublin. Time, the present. There are five char-,
acters in the cast. O'Cuisin is the pen name of James
H. Cousins.

Sold. A Comedy in 2 Acts.

A farmer is about to be turned out for non-payinent of
rent, when his wife Iiits" upon a plan to get him out of his
trouble. It is that he becomes legally dead, and signs over

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his property to another until things would right them-
selves. Amusing oompli cations arise when the farmer
wants to realise the property for his own use, and finds it
easier said than done. A cottage interior and an office.
First performed by the Cork National Theatre Society on
December 27th, 1905, in Corli. Cast : 8 males and 1
female.

The Turn of the Tide. Play. (1906).

Not yet acted. The plot is worked out amid the fisher-
folk in a fishing village in the North of Ireland.

*Etan (Fred.). The Laying of the Foundations. A
Play in 2 Acts.

A topical piece of clever satire of municipal life in Dublin.
This stinging comedy of everyday life has always been a
success when performed. It contains 3 female and 5 male
characters. On October 31st, 1902, it was first performed
at the Antient Concert Eooms, Dublin.

The Absentee. A Two-Act Musical Comedj-. Music
by W. Walle. Libretto by Alfred Percival
Graves.

First played at Court, London, bv the Irish Stage SooietT
on July 2nd, 1908.

*EsposiTO (Signor Michele), music by, and *Eolles-

TON (T. W.). Deirdre. Cantata.

Performed at Feis Ceoil Festival in Dublin, May, 1897.

and *Geaves (Alfred Percival). The Postbag.

A 1-Act Operetta. Music by Michele Esposito,
and libretto by Alfred Percival Graves.

Played at Gaiety, Dublin, on March 14th, 1902, with
Denis 'Sullivan and Joseph O'Mara in the cast. Played
at the Court Theatre, London, July 3rd, 1908.

Shemus ! (The Spy of the Glen). An Irish Drama in
3 Acts.

Time, the Rebellion of 1798. A typical '98 play, with
plenty of excitement, soldiers, and true-hearted Irishmen
in it. Played at Queen's, Dublin, October, 1902. Cast :
9 males and 3 females.

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Tynan (Brandan). Robert Emmet; or, The Days of
1803. Play.

Produced at Fourteenth Street Theatre, New York on
August ]8th, 1902. '

*Plays by De. Douglas Hyde, President of the Gaelic
League.

All Dr. Hyde's dramatic work has been done in Irish, and
only such of his plays as have been translated are men-
tioned here. Notes on several of his plays will be found
on p. 264, among the plays of Lady Gregory, who wrote the
English versions.

The Bursting of the Bubble. A Bi-lingu^l Play in

1 Act.

A skit, in which the identity of certain Trinity College
professors is very thinly disguised. It describes how an
old apple woman puts the curse of Gaelic on the professors
for some unkindness done her, so that when his Excellency
the Lord Lieutenant visits the College he iinds all who
welcome him speaking in a tongue he does not understand.
The situation is a very droU one. First played by the
National Players at Molesworth Hall on November 2nd,
1903. Dr. Hyde is the son of the rector of Frenohpark,
Co. Boscommon. He was bom near Castlerea.

The Tinker and the Fairy. An incident in 1 Act.

(Gaelic and English translation.)

A fairy is placed under a spell, and assumes the shape of
an old woman. If not kissed by a mortal within a certain
period she can never return to her fairy home again. The
time is on the verge of expiration, when a merry tinker
comes along and obliges the old woman with a kiss, when,
lo and behold! a lovely young fairy stands before him,
and his heart goes out to her at once, and she takes kindly
to his loving overtures. When the poor tinker sees paradise
in sight the fairy is called away to fairyland and vanishes
from his sight, leaving him, a poor broken man, to go the
roads alone. First played at a garden party given by
George Moore, at Ely Place, Dublin. The Tinker and the
Fairy was sung as an opera in one act, with libretto by Dr.
Hyde, and music by Michael Esposito, at the Gaiety, Dub-
lin, for the first time, on March 29th, 1910. Cast : 2 males
and 1 female.

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*BuTLEB (Mary E. L.). Kittie. A Pastoral Play in
1 Act.

Scene, a hayfield near Bunratty, Co. Clare. Cast : 5 males
and 4 females and haymakers. Published m Special Num-
ber of the Weehly Independent, May, 1902. It has been
acted by local people in Co. Sligo and Co. Cork. It was
translated into Irish by Mary Sheehy, of Clonakilty, Co.
Cork. The Irish version appeared in the Independent,
June and July, 1902. This refreshingly sweet Httle pla,y
is founded on the old song " Kitty of Coleraine," and is
full of lovemaking, and ends with a dance. The Kittie in
the play accidentally breaks a pitcher, and Murtagh soothes
her by proposing to" her and being accepted. All the other
pretty girls, when they hear of it, take to breaking pitchers,
without arriving at the same happy result. It is a
splendid little piece for open-air performance.

*Plays by Lady Gregory.

Twenty-Five. A Play in 1 Act.

A young man returns with his savings to marry the girl
he left behind him, only to find that she is wed already to
another, and that .the world has gone wrong with them
since. Hearing this he proposes to play a game of twenty-
five with the man of the house, and loses all his savings to
him, and then goes out a disappointed man to make his
way back to the States. This was Lady Gregory's first
essay in the domain of drama. She has since become
famous, by her rare gift of humour, in the Irish theatrical
movement. This, her first effort, was crude, but effective,
and showed that she had the stuff out of which dramatists
are made in her composition. This little drama was first
played by the Irish National Theatre Society at Molesworth
Hall on March 14th, 190B. The scene is a cottage interior,
and the cast is made up of 3 female and 3 male parts,
with a group of peasantry. The play was first published
in The Gael before being acted.

Spreading the News. A Comedy in 1 Act.

A really humorous peasant play,, in which a most innocent
incident is shortly turned into a tale of savage murder by
the tattling of village gossips. "Bartley Fallon," upon whom
every misfortune is likely to pitch, is a very droll char-
acter. First played at the opening night of the Abbey on
December 27th, 1904. Ten characters (3 female and 7
male).

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— Kincora. A Play in Prologue and 3 Acts. Crown
8vo., Is. net each. (Maunsel).

The scene is chiefly laid in the principal Hall of King
Brian's House at Kincora, and the action hegins hefore
Glenmama and ends with the Battle of Olontarf. The
character that stands out like a red flame in the play is
that of " Queen Gormleith," a part splendidly acted by
Mary Walker when the piece was first performed at
the Abbey on March 25th, 1905. Lady Gregory has since
revised the play, lopping off the prologue and two scenes in
Act 3, and altering some and omitting other of the char-
acters in original cast. The piece is published as first
played, and is the better acting version of the two. Marie
Nic Shiubhlaigh filled the role of "Queen" in original
version, and Sara Allgood in the play as revised.

— The White Cockade. A Comedy in 3 Acts.
(Maunsel).

The action of the piece takes place between mid-day and
sunrise at Duncannon, after the Battle of the Boyne, and
ends in King James the Second's cowardly flight inside a
barrel, and Patrick Sarsfield's disgust at the sight of the
craven King for whom he so valiantly fought. First played
at the Abbey on December 9th, 1905. Cast : 10 males and
2 females.

"- Hyacinth Halvey. A Comedy in 1 Act.

This is one of the brightest pieces in all the Abbey reper-
toire. A splendid " character " has been put upon Halvey,
and he, poor fellow, tries by every means in his power to
lose it, without avail. The comedy is full of amusing
little character-sketches, and is easily staged. First played
at the Abbey on February 19th, 1906. Cast : 4 males and
2 females.

— The Gaol Gate. A Tragedy in 1 Act.

A profoundly impressive dramatic episode of a mother,
and wife, hearing at the gate of Galway gaol of the execu-
tion of their son and husband for a murder he had no hand
in; and the exaltation of the mother when she hears that
her boy has not informed on those who committed the
crime. There is a lyric beauty in the language used by
both women that translates their grief into the realms of
pure tragic grandeur. The tragedy was first played at the
Abbey on October 20th, 1906. The gaol doorkeeper is the
only other character in the piece.

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The Canavans. An Extravaganza in 3 Acts.

A wildlv extrsTagant piece of fooling of the burlesque order,
descriptive of the troubles of the miller, Canavan, to be
considered a loyal subject of the Queen, and of the sup-
posed coming of Queen Elizabeth to Ireland. First played
at the Abbey on December 8th, 1906. Five characters — 3
male and 2 female.

- The Jackdaw, A Comedy in 1 Act.

This is an amusing short farcical piece, in which the whole
town of Cloon goes jackdaw-catching, owing to the wise
man of the place making up a plan to give relief to one
of the villagers in sore need of it, without her knowing
that it came from her brother. He hits upon buying her
jackdaw from her for the amount, and it gets about the
town that someone is buying birds for large sums, and
they all go bird-catching. It was first played at the Abbey
on February 23rd, 1907. There are six characters in the
cast — 4 male and 2 female.

- The Rising of the Moon. A Play in 1 Act.

Scene, a moonlight quay, near a flight of steps leading
down to the water. A sergeant is watching for an escaped
prisoner when a tattered ballad singer joins him, and they
get talking about old times as they sit watching on an up-
turned barrel, back to back. The ballad singer turns out
to be the prisoner the sergeant is on the look-out for, but
being touched by recollections of his youth, the sergeant
shuts his eyes to his escape. This is one of the gems of
the Abbey repertoire. There are four characters in the
oast. On' March 19th, 1907, it was first played at the
Abbey.

- Dervorgilla. A Play in 1 Act.

Time, 1193. In which the old Queen, who wrought bo
rnuch havoc in her " young youth " in bringing the Eng-
lish into Ireland, passes quietly out of life, her misdeeds
coming home to her mind shdrtly before her death by a
stray word from a singer of ths^roads. Sara Allgood made
a big hit as " Dervorgilla." First played at the Abbey on
October 31st, 1907. Cast : 3 males, 3 females, and a group
of boys and girls.

- and Hyde (Dr. Douglas). The Poorhouse. A
Comedy in 1 Act.

One of two old men, who are ever abusing each other, gets
the chance to depart from the poorhouse, but he refuses to

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go at the last moment unless they tato his old companion
along with him. This request is refused, and soon the
two old fellows fall to abusing each other afresh as if
nothing had happened. This piece was played at the Abbey
on April 3rd, 1907. Lady Gregory re-wrote and re-named
it " The "Workhouse Ward," and the new version was pro-
duced at the Abbey on April 20th, 1908. In its latter shapa
it Is considered one of the most- laughable of Lady
Gregory's one-act plays. There are three parts — two old
men and one elderly woman — in the cast.

-^ The Image. A Comedy in 3 Acts.

The scene is a village on a headland in Galway, and seven
characters are introduced — 5 male and 2 female. The piece
is made up of squabbles from start to finish, and goes to
show that most of us talk too much and do too little. First
played at the Abbey on November 11th, 1909.

- The Travelling Man. A Miracle Play in 1 Act.

This piece is almost too delicate to get over the foot-
lights. In the person of a " travelling man " our Lord
does a kindly turn to a friendless girl, and in after years
he comes to her house and plays with her child in her
absence. On her return she does not recognise him, and
orders him away, and it is only when he is gone she knows
what she has done. First played at the Abbey on March
3rd, 1910. Cast : 1 man, 1 woman, and a chUd. Scene, a
cottage interior.

- The Full Moon. A Farce in 1 Act.

This is the least successful of aU Lady Gregory's short
comic sketches. The fun arises out of a number of sup-
posed to be sane country folk thinking themselves mad
for the time being owing to the moon being at its full.
Lunacy is too painful a subject to build laughter upon,
hence the comparative failure of the piece. Cast : 5 males
and 3 females. Fiest played at the Abbey Theatre on
November 10th, 191^. In this and some of her later pieces
Lady Gregory quite lost her gift of writing agreeably fojf
the stage.

- Coats. A Farce in 1 Act.

Scene, a coffee room in a country hotel. Time, the
present. Characters, three men. A trifling sketch, in
which the editors of two local papers, by the mischance of

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an exchange of overcoats, are made to read their own
ohituary notices, each reading what the other had written
of him. The fun is of the " Box and Cox " order of farce.
First played at the Abbey Theatre on December 1st, 1910.

MacDaragh's Wife. Play.

Started on board the White Star Liner, " Cymric," on her
way out to join the Abbey Company in Boston, September,
1911. The play is founded on fact. When his wife died
MacDaragh was unable to get anyone to carry her body
to the grave, and it was necessary for him to go through
the countryside playing his pipes to attract body bearers.
Copyright performance at Abbey, Friday afternoon, Decem-
ber 15th, 1911. First public performance at Abbey, by
pupils of the School of Acting, on January 11, 1912. The
piece does not take kindly to the stage. It is too talkey.
Published in The Outlook, December 16th, 1911. Cast :
1 male, 2 females and a group of country folk.

N.B. — The following are translations from the Gaelic
of Dr. Douglas Hyde: —

The Marriage. A Play in 1 Act. Translated

from the Gaelic of Dr. Douglas Hyde.

Raftery, the Connaoht poet and blind fiddler, comes to
the house of a poor couple who have just been married,
and he is invited in to share their humble meal with them.
He then tells them to go call the neighbours and say
Raftery was inside, and there was going to be a wedding
dance. They come in, bringing presents with them, and
when the party breaks up the couple embrace in glee, and
as they do the poet slips away, leaving the plate of money
collected for him behind. It is a most effective little play.
Cast : 2 males, 1 female, and a number of neighbours.

The Twisting of the Rope. A Play in 1 Act.

Translated from the Gaelic of Dr. Douglas Hyde.

It tells how the Connacht poet, Hanrahan, was banished
from a farmer's house in Munster a hundred years ago
through the twisting of a rope of hay. When the play was
performed in Gaelic at the Gaiety, Dublin, on October 21st,
1901, Dr. Hyde filled the role of " Hanrahan " to the life.
Cast : 1 man 4 women, and a number of peasants.

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The Lost Saint. A Play in 1 Act. Translated

from the Gaelic of Dr. Douglas Hyde.

Tells how an old man prays God to help a backward little
boy to learn his lessons as he slept, and on awakening he
can repeat his task. By this means the old man is dis-
covered to be the " lost saint," whom all have been seek-
ing for many a long day. Cast : 2 men and a number of
little children. Hyde is said to have written this piece
one afternoon at Coole.

The Nativity. A Miracle Play in 1 Scene. Trans-
lated from the Gaelic of Dr. Douglas Hyde.

The scene is laid in a stable. This little work was per-
formed in Eccles Street Convent a few years ago. This
and three other translations, from the Gaelic of Dr. Hyde,
are published in Poets and Dreamers. (Hodges, Figgis
and Co.)

^Plays by Padraic Golum.

The Saxon Shilling. A Play in 1 Act.

It vividly depicts the dramatic incident of a country lad
who has taken " the shilling," being called upon to assist
at the eviction of his own people and of his refusal to do
so, and of his being shot in defending them from the
despoilers. It is very dramatically worked out by the
youthful playwright, and is ever and always sure to strike
home when capably enacted. It was first played at the
Banba HaU, Dublin, on May 15th, 1903.

The Land. A Play in 3 Acts, (ilaunsel).

It is one of the sweetest, yet saddest, of peasant plays, and
tells of the longing the healthy Irish youth of both sexes
have to quit their country for America, leaving only the
old and infirm to work the land at home. The dialogue is
touched with true poetry that ever and always finds an echo
in the hearts of all Irish folk. The scene is set in a cottage.
■ Time, the present day. Six characters — 3 men and 3
women — and a group of peasants make up the cast. The
play first saw light at the Abbey on June 9th, 1905.

The Fiddler's House. A Peasant Play in 3 Acts.

Paper cover. Cr. 8vo. Is. net. (Maunsel).

This play is an elaborating of the ideas contained in its
author's earlier piece — Broken Soil — produced at the Moles-

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worth Hall on December 3rd, 1903. It tells of the longing:
of an old fiddlej, who has settled down for some years, to
go to the roads again. The longing ultimately overmasters
him, and he wanders out of his home, never to return.
The Fiddler's House was first played at the Botunda on
March 21st, 1907, by the Theatre of Ireland. It is full of
sweetness and beauty, and contains a splendid character-
study of the old fiddler.

- The Miracle of the Corn. A Mystery Play in
1 Act.

It is the time of famine, and a hard man has much com
stored, but refuses to give any to the starving poor. His
wife is more tender-hearted, and is touched by the piteous-
cries of the hungry peasantry, so she gives freely of her
husband's store, and lo I the more she gives the more she
has. The little play is almost too fanciful and fragile for
the glare of the footlights. It was first played at the-
Abbey on May 22nd, 1908, by the Theatre of Ireland.

- The Destruction of the Hostel. A Play.

This is a dramatic arrangement of the old Saga, The De-
struction of Bruidhen Da Derga; the language, which
closely follows Dr. Whitley Stokes' translation, has high
tragic beauty and dignity, and is admirably suited for
declamation. The words are full of the music of sweet,
speech. First played by the boys at St. Enda's School on
February 5th, 1910.

- Thomas Muskerry. A Play in 3 Acts. Is.
(Maunsel).

This rather sombre play of middle-class life in an Irish
country town was produced at the Abbey on May 5th,.
1910. The central figure in the piece is a sort of ' ' Eing
Lear of the Workhouse," as a critic aptly styles him,
whose family for their own selfish ends ultimately do the-
poor old fellow to death. It aims at being realistic, and
much of it is. Many of the characters are admirably
drawn, and give excellent scope for clever character-aotingi
There are twelve (10 male and 2 female) in the oast, and
three scenes.

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Plays by J. M. Synge.

In the Shadow of the Glen. A Peasant Play in 1

Act.

First produced by Irish National Theatre Society in the
Molesworth. Hall on October 8th, 1903. A grimly realistic
little comedy, full of the author's strangely rich-flavoured
lyrical prose. An old man who is married to a young wife
pretends to be dead in order to test his wife's fidelity.
The scene is laid in a cottage among the "Wicklow hills,
and four characters are introduced, three men and one
woman. This play, with Riders to the Sea, is published
in No. 24 of Vigo Cabinet Series, by Elkin Mathews. Is.

Eiders to the Sea. A Tragedy in 1 Act, depicting

an incident in the lives of the fisher folk on the
Aran Islands.

It is probably the most perfect little serious drama that
has as jet seen the light of the stage during the modern
dramatic movement in Ireland. The episode the dramatist
has chosen to mirror forth for us is heart-rending in its
appeal. Three women and one man, with a group of vil-
lagers, complete the cast. The part of the sorrowing old
mother is one that any emotional actress might be proud
to interpret. The first performance of this piece was
given in the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, on February 26th,
1904. It is generally considered Synge's masterpiece, and
has won unstinted praise from many of the world's ablest
dramatic critics. The scene is a cottage interior.

The Well of the Saints. A Play in 3 Acts.

Uniform with " The Playboy." Crown 8vo., 2s.
net. (Maunsel).

A legendary play, set amongst the mist-clad hills of Wick-
low. It tells the story of how a pair of blind old beggars
regain their sight by the aid of the. water from a holy well,
and losing it again, wish to remain dim for the rest of
their natural lives, all their hopes being shattered when
they beheld the world around them. The play is powerful,
but depressing, and contains much of the author's most
beautiful word-pictures of nature. The play contains five-
principal characters (3 male and 2 female) and a group of
peasants. Two outdoor scenes are required. It was first
produced at the Abbey on February 4th, 1905.

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The Playboy of the Western World. A Comedy

in 3 Acts, pp.96. 2s. (Maunsel).
This is a fantastic study of Irish life. On its first produc-
tion at the Abbey on Saturday, January 26th, 1907, and
the week following, a series of rows took place that have
since become theatrical history. Originally the piece was
played in realistic fashion, now it is treated more as a
fantasy. It tells of a youth who is supposed to have killed
his father, and is worshipped by all the peasantry because
of the fact — especially by the womankind. On the dis-
covery that the father still lives they all turn against him,
and will have nought to do with him. This much-
discussed comedy is full of " poetry talk," mixed up with
regrettably strong expressions. The same scene — an interior
■ — does for the three acts. It may be mentioned that this
play was greeted with hisses when produced in Boston on
October 23rd, 1911, and caused a riot in the theatre at New
York on November 27th, 1911. It has come to be known
as the "police-protected " drama.

The entire company were arrested at Philadelphia on the
plea that this play v.-as immoral, on Wednesday, January
17th, 1912.

■ — — ■ The Tinkers' Wedding. Uniform with " The
Playboy." 2s. net. (Maunsel) .

This comedy, in three short acts, has never yet been
played in Ireland. It was produced on November lltb,
1909, at His Majesty's Theatre, London. The cast com-
prises three tinkers (one man and two women) and a
priest; and the incidents depicted arise out of the priest's
refusing to marry a pair of tinkers. The tone and treat-
ment of this piece makes its performance before an Irish
audience impossible. J. M. Synge died on the 24th of
March, 1909, aged 37 years.

• Deirdre of the Sorrows. 10s. 6d. (Cuala Press,

Dundrum, Co. Dublin.)

A legendary play in three acts, founded on the tragic story
of Deirdre 's love for Naisi, and the coveting of her person
by old King Conchubar. Many of our dramatists have
tried their hand on the legend, but none have humanised
the story so completely as Synge. He draws the character
of Deirdre as an unsophisticated child of nature, and brings
her out of the world of dreams into the land of flesh and
blood for the first time. The play was produced at the
Abbey on the 13th January, 1910. It contains some ten

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characters and three scenes. Incidental music composed
by John F. Larchet.

N.B. — The complete works of J. M. Synge have been
published by Maunsel and Co., in 4 vols., 24s. the set;
and also the plays in separate ones at 2s. each.

*JoHNSTONE (Robert). The Old Land. A Romantic
Irish Drama in 5 Acts.

A '98 play, full of stirring incidents. J. W. "Whitbread
oHered a prize of ifilOO for the best '98 play, and this piece
was awarded the prize. First played at Queen's, Dublin,
on April 13th, 1903. Cast : 10 males and 4 females.

*Davies (Hubert Henry). Cousin Kate. Comedy in 3
Acts.

A charming love story, in which an Irishman figures. First
played at the Haymarket, London, June 18th, 1903. Ellis
Jeffreys appeared in the title role, and Cyril Maude as
" Heath Desmond."

*RussELL (George), better known as " M." Deirdre. A
Play in 3 Acts. Is. Tower Press Booklets. (Maun-
sel).

Of all the plays built up on the legend, this is probably the
most beautiful and fanciful. It is full of the charm of
musical speech, and keeps the story in its proper old-
world atmosphere of speUs and weird happenings. The
figures move as in a dream-world, and visions of loveliness
and rare charm xmfold themselves as the fateful career of
Deirdre unfolds itself. The spirit of love of country also
is wafted like a whisper of summer wind through the work,
which gives it added charm. It was first played by the
Irish National Theatre Society in Dublin on April 2nd,
1902. The cast comprises eight male and two female
characters. The play had been successfully produced
" under the greenwood tree " at Dun Emer, Dundrum, Co.
Dublin, in August, 1903. Mr. Russell was born at Lurgan,
Co. Armagh, in 1867.

*KiRWAN (Patrick). The Fotheringay. An Adaptation
in 1 Act from Thackeray's " Pendennis."

The scene is laid at Captain Costigan's quarters, at
Chatteris; and the Irish adventurer and the provincial

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" star " — the Fotheringay— are the principal characters.
Cast : 4 males and 1 female. Played for the first time at
the Bijou, Bayswater, October 29tli, 1903.

*0'Beiene (J.). The Doctor (An Doctuir). A Bi-
lingual Play in 1 Act.

Played by the Tamaiun Village Company at Oireachtas,
Rotunda, Dublin, August 1st, 1904. Michael ConifE, who
made such an impression as Raftery, the Blind Fiddler, in
The Marriage, when revived by the Abbey Theatre School
of Acting, on November 15th, 1911, filled the role of
" boy " in this piece. " The Doctor " shows the absurdity
of sending an English-speaking medical man amongst Irish-
speaking people.

*BuTLEE (O'Brien) and Chess on (Nora Hopper). The
Sea Swan. An Irish Legendary Grand Opera in 3
Acts. Music by O'Brien Butler, libretto by Nora
Hopper-Chesson.

First production. Theatre Royal, Dublin, on De'-'en\ber 7th,
1903. Mrs. Hopper-Chesson was born of an Irish father
and a Welsh mother, at Exeter, in 1871.

*" Connell" (Henry) — Henry Mangan. Robert Emmet.
Specially -written Centenary Play in 3 Acts.

First played, October 31st, 1903, in Molesworth Hall, and
after being revised and partly re-written, played at the
Abbey by the National Players on November 3rd, 1906. A
good stirring drama, winding up with an excellent repre-
sentation of Emmet's trial, in which the young, ill-fated
patriot delivers his great speech from the dock. The play
is published by M. H. Gill'and Son.

O'Hare (F. J.). The Eenegade. (A Dramatic Story of
'98.) An Irish Play in 4 Acts.

One of the endless plays that cluster around the year '98,
" when the boys were all scattered and bate." First played
at Queen's, Dublin, on June 4th, 1906. Cast : 14 males
and 4 females.

Morgan (Mrs. Nash). Terence. An Irish Opera.

Produced at the New York Theatre, January 5th, 1904,
with Olcott as " Terence." The Chief ingredients of the

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piece are — a hero in disguise as the driver of a coach, a
rascally lawyer and lost estates, a villain in the opposing
lover, and a maiden seemingly beyond the reach of the
humble suitor in disguise.

*Plays by George Bernard Shaw.

John Bull's Other Island, etc. pp. 356. (Con-
stable), 6s.

This is more a delightful " discussion " of the Irish ques-
tion, from every point of view, in four acts, than a play
in the ordinary acceptance of the term. It is full of humour
and razor-edged satire, and makes a really splendid enter-
tainment. The portrait of the cock-sure Englishman —
Broadbent — is conceived and built up with delicious
eatirical result. There are as many as ten characters in
the cast — 8 male and 2 female. The play was first pro-
duced at. the Court Theatre, London, on November, 1, 1904.
This play was originally written for the Abbey Company,
but not accepted by them. Shaw was born in Dublin on
July 26, 1856.

Press Cuttings. A Topical Skit, in which the

character of " Mrs. Farrell," an Irish charwoman,
appears.

First produced at the Court, London, on July 9th, 1909.
Cast : 3 males and 3 females.

Man and Superman. Play in 3 Acts.

Period, the present. Originally played on May 23rd, 1905,
at Court Theatre, London. Cast : 6 males and 5 females.
It tells how man is the hunted, woman the hunter
always. There is one Irish character in the play, " Mr.
Malone," an Irish-American. The fine old Dublin actor,
J. D. Beveridge, originally filled the role of " Old Malone."

The Doctor's Dilemma. A Tragedy in 4 Acts and

an Epilogue.

The dilemma is one between love and duty. A doctor finds
himself madly in love with the wife of a patient who lies
at the point of death — his skill might save him; will he
use it? That's the question. An Irish common-sense
doctor — Sir Patrick Cullen — is a prominent character in the
piece. Cast : 11 males and 3 females. Originally played
at the Court, London, on November 20th 1906.

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Fanny's First Play. An easy play for a little

theatre, in 3 actSj an induction, and an epilogue.

It is a play within a play. The induction and epilogue
take place in a country house in Cambridge, taken for the
occasion by Count O'Dowde, before the curtain. The three
acts between are those of Fanny's " first play." Fanny is
the daughter of an Irishman who lives at Venice, and
merely takes the house at Cambridge in order to produce
his daughter's play therein. Some four dramatic critics
are introduced into the piece to poke fun at. In the play
there are 5 male characters and 4 female. The identity
of the author was kept until after the first performance,
when the mantle fell, by general consent, on the shoulders
of G. B. Shaw. First played at the Little Theatre, London,
on Wednesday (afternoon), April 19th, 1911.

*Plays bj' Lewis Purcell (Parkhill).

The Reformers. A Satirical Comedy in 3 Acts.

]?irst plaved by Ulster Literary Theatre, at Belfast, Decem-
ber, 1904.

The Enthusiast. A Play in 1 Act.

Time, present day. It tells of a youth who wishes to bring
the Orange and Green together in the Black North, and
the hopelessness of his enthusiastic endeavour. First
played by the Ulster Literary Theatre, at Belfast, on May
5th, 1905. " Purcell " is the pen name of Mr. Parkhill.

and MaoNamara (Gerald). Susannah and the

Sovereigns.

A burlesque, in many scenes, in which the love of Kings
William and James for a certain maiden, called Susannah,
is entertainingly and cleverly set forth. First played by
the Ulster Literary Theatre at Belfast.

The Pagan. A Comedy in 2 Scenes.

Period, the Sixth Century. An old-world comedy, in which
a young and beautiful Christian maiden has many suitors,
but ultimately gives her heart to a fine, manly young
pagan. The wooing of the many suitors makes for much
merriment. Cast : 7 males and 1 female. First played by
the Ulster Literary Theatre, at Belfast, on December 17th,
1906

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Russell (T. O'Neill). The Last Irish King. 3 Acts.
6d.

A drama in blank verse, full of vigorous declamatory
writing, and the sentiments expressed are of the popular
kind. First played at Cork on' December 9th, 1904, at
the first performance given by the Cork National Theatre
Society.

Red Hugh. 3 Acts, with music of Song of Vic-
tory after the Battle of the Yellow Ford, by Dr.
Annie Patterson. 6d.

A play bristling with strong, popular, declamatory speeches
in blank verse and many stirring incidents. An interesting
treatment of an excitingly dramatic period in Irish history.
Played for the first time in Dublin, by the Pioneer
Dramatic Society, on April 12th, 1909. Cast : 10 males, 3
females, and a group of warriors, etc.

Maol (Conan). Hugh O'Neill. Play.

Produced at the distribution of prizes, Ursuline Convent,
Blaokrock, Cork, by pupils of the Convent, October, 1904.
The author's real name is P. J. O'Shea.

Fox (Max). A Day in Paddy's Market. Farcical Play,
with music, in 3 Acts.

Fleetwood, Queen's, November 14th, 1904.

*Blunt (Wilfred Scawen). Fand of the Fair Cheek.
A 3-Act Tragedy in Rhymed Verse.

The second act — ^in Fairyland — was omitted in representa-
tion at the Abbey when first produced on April 20th, 1907.
It tells of the wooing and charming away of Cuchulain by
Fand, a fairy, to the Land of the Ever Young, and of his
return to earth again. As a stage play it was scarcely con-
vincing. Privately printed, December, 1904.

*HoBSON (Bulmer). Brian of Banba. A Play.

First played by Ulster Literary Theatre, at Belfast, Decem-
ber, 1904.

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m^AN (Joseph). A Twinkle in Ireland's Eye. An
Extravaganza in 2 Acts.

This skit is full of humorous small shot at the expense
of those who most need ridicule in our midst, and their
name is legion, be it truthfully said. The scene in act one
is a Room in the King's Palace, Dalkey; and in act two—
a Room in the Castle, Ireland's Bye. The time, not long
ago. At the time of its production — November 3rd, 1903 —
it was keenly relished by all who witnessed it.

. An International ExHibition. A sequel to "A

Twinkle in Ireland's Eye." A Skit in 2 Acts.

It was first played by the National Players at the Moles-
worth Hall, Dublin, on October 29th, 1904, and caused
much amusement. There are eight characters in the oast.
The pity of it is that the best Unes in skits of this sort,
unfortunately, are but short-lived; hence when revived
the matter jfias to be skilfully up-to-dated to make it go
with renewed relish.

*Bartuole\-us (A. O'D.). Swift and Vanessa. Urama
in 4 Acts (founded on Lady Duff Gordon's transla-
tion of a romance by Leon de Wailly).

Produced, Royalty, London, January 11th, 1904.

''•Hood (Captain Basil). Love in a Cottage. Comedy
in 4 Acts.

All the principal people in the piece are Irish, and three
out of the four acts take place in Ireland. The plot lays
bare the machinations of Lady Margaret, the worldly aunt
of Eileen, who wishes to marry her niece to a fool with
money, when her heart is given to a penniless captain.
Everything comes right in the end, as it should in a
pretty love story. First played at Terry's, London, on
January 27th, 1904. Captain Hood was born April 5th,
1864.

■•'Plays by Seumas MacManus.

The Hard-Hearted Man. A Play in 3 Acts.

An effective propsigandist piece, aimed at the evil effects of
emigration — especially on the old who are left at home by

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the rambling youngsters. Scene, cottage interior. Char-
acters, 4 male, 1 female, and 3 children. First played in
the open air at Eathmines, Co. Dublin, July 10th, 1904.

- The Townland of Tamney. A Folk Play in 1 Act.

Three brothers consult the local wise man as to which of
them is entitled to the townland of Tamney. ' The will
bothers him, and he thinks of other means to decide, until
at last he awards it to big Teague, who threatens to de-
nounce him " as a worthless old man," if he gets not the
townland. That settles it — ^the land is his. There are five
characters. First played by the Irish National Theatre
Society, in Molesworth Hall, January 14th, 1904.

- The Resui'rection of Dinny O'Dowd. A Farce in
3 Scenes.

Dinny, who is supposed to be dead, comes back and
frightens everyone almost out of their wits, and the land-
lord into giving a lease for ever of farm to Mrs. O'Dowd.
A merry little piece. First played by the National Players
on October 28th, 1904. Cast : 5 males and 1 female, and
peasant boys and girls.

- The Lad from Largymore. A Farce in 1 Act.

A very laughable piece, in which the " lad " sees through
a window the servant stowing away things in various
places, and also hiding her special " peeler," whom she
has been entertaining in the absence of her master, on the
false alarm of his return. When the coast is clear the
" lad " enters and begs an alms, but is refused, on the plea
of nothing being in the house. He asks for a sieve, and
says he'll be able to get some food by its aid. The servant
brings it him, and he tells where everything is he saw her
hide away, even to the constable. First played at the
Rotunda, Dublin, on February 27th, 1905. Cast : S men
and 1 girl.

- The Woman of Seven Sorrows. An Allegory in 1
Act.

Showing how all her grown-up sons and daughters desert
her — Erin — the Woman of Seven Sorrows — in her hour of
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sorrowing heart into smiles of hope again, so that all may
yet be well with her. There are fifteen speaking parts m
this inspiring little play, and also u. number of children.
First played in Molesworth Hall, November 1st, 1906.

The Leading Road to Donegal. A Play in 1 Act.

A husband and wife quarrel over a trifle, and they agree
that whoever speaks first gives in he or she was in the
wrong. Several come in to enquire for the leading road
to Donegal, and get no answer from the pair, until at
last one breaks the silence, and the quarrel ends. First
performed by the National Players on November 1st, 1905.

— — Orange and Green. A Play in 4 Scenes (founded
on Gerald Griffin's ballad of the same name).

An interesting and exciting little drama. First played by
the National Players at the Abbey on November 2nd, 1906.
Cast : 10 males.

Bong Tong Come to Balrudderry. A Farce.

Played by Chapelizod Dramatic Class in December, 1908.

The Oath. A Play in 1 Act (adapted by F.

Keenan).

Produced at Fifth Avenue, New York, October 17th, 1910.
Mr. MaoManus was born at Mountcharles, Donegal, on
December 31st, 1868.

*Ulgar (Gladys). Mr. Sheridan. Comedy in 4 Acts.

Mr. Arthur Bourchier filled the title role in the cast at the
Garrick, London, in March,' 1907. First performed at
Theatre Royal, Brighton, August 29th, 1904. Cast: 15
males and 4 females.

•■■Hamilton (John). The Magic Sieve. A Play in 2
Scenes. (Prize Play.)

A pleasant little peasant comedy. First played by
National Players on October 31st, 1904, at Molesworth Hall,
Dublin. Cast : 5 males and 3 females. Scenes, a country
road and cottage interior.

The District Councillor. In 3 Acts.

Not yet played.

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Stephens (Robert Neilson) and Swete (E. Lyall). Miss
Elizabeth's Prisoner. A Romantic Play in 4 Acts.

Scene laid in America during the War of Independence.
When the piece was played at the Gaiety, Dublin, in
November, 1904, Thomas Kingston filled the role of " Cap-
tain Harry Peyton." " Major Murphy, of the King's
American Volunteers," is the Irish character in the play.
Cast : 10 males and 4 females.

BiDWELL (Patrick) , libretto and lyrics by, and Esposito
(Michele), arranged and harmonised by. Peggie
Machree. Musical Play in 3 Acts.

Produced, Prince of Wales' Theatre, Grimsby, November
7th, 1904.

Campbell (Joseph). The Little Cowherd of Slainge.
A Dramatic Legend in Verse in 2 Scenes.
A poetic little play, in which the heroine goes mad after
the fashion of Ophelia in Hamlet. First produced at Bel-
fast, by the Ulster Literary Theatre, on May 4th, 1905.

WiiiTBREAD (Miss Nellie). The Blackmailers ! An
Irish-American Drama in 4 Acts. With America
as background, but many of the characters Irish.

A play of frankly sensational type. First played at
Queen's, Dublin, on January 9th, 1905.

O'Heer (P.). The Con-version of the Cailin. A Play
in 4 Acts.

Played at St. Teresa's Hall, Clarendon Street, on July 17th,
1905, by pupils of Senior Schools, St. Kevin's and Black-
pitts.

Markham (Thomas). The Trail of the Serpent. A
Comedy.
Played at Banba Hall, Dublin, on May 28th, 1905.

*GwYNN (Stephen). Robert Emmet. A Play. (1905).

Never acted nor printed, as far as I know. He had the
Abbey Theatre in his mind in writing it, but he didn't
find its doors open to receive it. He then wrote and pub-
lished a romance on the subject instead.

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Coyne (Gardiner) and Whitbeead (J. W.). Willy
Reilly ! or, The Fair Lady of Boyle. An Irish
Drama in 4 Acts (founded on William Carleton's
novel of that name).

A popular play on the subject. First time, Queen's, Dub-
lin, April 24th, 1905. Cast : 16 males and 3 females.

Parry (Edward F.) and Mouillot (Frederick). What
the Butler Saw. A Comedy-Farce in 3 Acts.

Originally played at Theatre Royal, Dublin, on March 6th.
1905, under title of While the Cat's Away. The action of
the play takes place at Foden Wells Hydropathetic Estab-
lishment. Period, the present. The fun centres round the
doings of the guests. A good-natured Irishman, Jack
Harrington, takes a leading part in putting things out of
order, that leads up to " What the Butler Saw! " Cast :
9 males and 9 females.

The Miser's Matchmaking. Play.

Produced at Court Theatre, Galway, on March 17th, 1905.

O'LouGHLiN (John). The Nation Builder. A Play.

First produced by the Cork National Theatre Society on
March 6th, 1905.

Slaughter (Walter). Barney in Connemara.

The music of scene in The Coliseum, London, 1905,
arranged and written by Slaughter.

1 i .

'■'Plays by William Boyle.

Shane the Proud. An Historical Drama, with the

Irish Chieftain's — Shane O'Neill — doings as the
kemal of the plc5t.

A fine, stirring, vigorously -written play, sailing close to
historical facts, with many episodes built on impressive
spectacular lines that would require a big stage for proper
display.

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- The Building Fund. (Maunsel).

This is a comedy, in three acts, of the farming class in
Louth. It contains two admirably drawn characters of a
miserly mother and her equally miserly son. It is full of
dramatic surprises, and only requires one scene. It was
first produced at the Abbey on April 25th, 1905, and is one
of the most popular pieces on the repertoire of that theatre.
The cast is small — two women and three men. Boyle
knows his countrymen and women through and through,
and hits off their follies as well as their good qualities with
the sure touch of a born dramatist. This piece would be
acceptable to any Irish audieiice. Mr. Boyle is a native of
Dromiskin, Co. Louth. He was born in 1853.

- The Eloquent Dempsey. A Comedy in 3 Acts. Is.
(First published by O'Donoghue and now by Gill).

The chief character in this merry satirical faice of modern
political life in an Irish country town is one Jeremiah.
Dempsey, a publican, who tries to face both ways in poli-
tics and please all parties, with the result he just escaped
coming to the wall in the end. It was first produced at
the Abbey on January 20th, 1906, and of all the plays, pro-
duced there up to the present, it has proved by far the
most popular. As a " laugh -raiser " it has few equals,
and as there are " Dempseys " to be met with all over Ire-
land, it is bound to be popular wherever played. One
scene — an interior — is only required, and seven characters
(2 females and 5 males) in the cast. W. G. Fay created
the title role. Arthur Sinclair haig since made it one of his
most popular successes.

- The Mineral Workers. A Play in 4 Acts. Is.
(Gill).

The longest of the author's pieces, and some consider it
his best. It is chiefly concerned with a returned Irish-
American, who discovers the mineral qualities of the soil
in a district, and endeavours to gain over the country
people to his ideas on mining instead of tilling the soil, as
they had always done in the past. The' play is full of
excellent character-sketches splendidly contrasted. A
couple of simple scenes are required, and two women and
eight men are to be found in the cast. It met with instant
success on its first production at the Abbey on October 20th,
1906.

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The Confederates. A. Duologue, with Mr. and Mrs.

W. G. Fay in cast.

First played, " original night," Irish Literary Society,

London, on April 3rd, 1909.

. The. Dawning of the Day. Play in 3 Acts, with a

Manganesque character as central figure.

Family Failing. A Comedy in 3 Acts.

It is about an idle family of the better farming class come
down in the world, their dodges, twists and turnings. An
uncle, who has been abroad in the world, comes home and
tries to move them. He ends by falling into their ways
under the charm of their idleness. Some fiercely energetic
neighbours help to frame the picture. Accepted by the
Abbey.

The Love Charm. A Farcical Sketch in 1 Act.

Cast : 2 males and 2 females.. Two women drink of a love
potion, and make a " dead set " on a bachelor, to his bother-
ation, after partaking of the dose. First played at Abbey on
Monday, September 4th, 1911, on the occasion of Mr. W.
A. Henderson's complimentary performance.

*GiLBEET (Lady). Boycotting. A Play in 3 Scenes.

Some pretty love-making is agreeably woven around the
" boycotting " of a Major 'Flattery. First produced on
October 30th, 1905, by the National Players in Molesworth
Hall. Oast : 5 males, 7 females, and " supers."

'Donovan (Michael). The Jokers. A Farce.
First played at Loughrea on January 16th, 1906.

*Carr (Joseph W. Comyns). Tristram and Iseult.
Play in 4 Acts.

Produced by Otho Stuart, Adelphi, London, 1906. Cast:
15 males and 5 females. Drama written in blank verse.
(Published by Duckworth and Co., London, 1906.) Mr!
Carr was born in 1849.

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"Rutherford " (John). Boy O'Carroll." A Romantic
Irish Comedy Drama in 4 Acts.

Full of war's alarms. First played at Newcastle, Theatre
Royal, April 22nd, 1906, with Martin Harvey .as the hero.
" Rutherford " stands for the pen name of two ladies —
Misses Beulah Marie Dix and E. G. Sutherland.

Leamy (Edmund). Cupid in Kerry. A, Comedy in 3
Acts.

A comedy full of sweetness and charm. First played at
Queen's, Dublin, on April 19th, 1906. Mr. Leamy was
born in Waterford on Christmas Day, 1848.

Den VIE (John). Rosaleen Dhuj or, The Twelve Pins
of Bur-a-Bola. A Drama in 3 Acts.

A popular type of Irish drama, full of adventure, with the
scenes laid both in Ireland and with the French Army in
Algiers. It tells of true love that did not run smooth for
a time, and of the villainy of a false steward who tries to
keep the heroine out of her inheritance. Cast : 7 males
and 4 females. Played in Large Concert Hall, Rotunda,
Dublin, May 3rd, 1906.

*Partridgb (Felix). Tlie Gre'at Change. A Bi-lingual
Play.

A clever and amusing farce about a cobbler who is forced
into speaking Irish by a trick. First played at the Rotunda,
Dublin, on August 9th, 1906. Ten in cast.

*Walsh (R. G.). Tom Moore. A Drama.

First produced in Tipperary on November 19th, 1906.

Before Clonmel. Dramatic Sketch in 1 Act.

The action of this exciting little piece occurs during Crom-
well's siege of Clonmel (1650), and is carried on by four
of General O'Neill 's soldiers — then defending the town.
Though war's alarms are in the air, a pretty love story
forms its main theme. The drama was first played in
Dublin, at the Rotunda, by the National Players on
November 1st, 1907. The scene is an interior.

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*FoB.D (Joseph). The Bailiff of Kilmore. A Romantic
Drama in 3 short scenes.

Tells of the love of, two men — a bailiff and a young farmer —
for Nuala O'Connor, a farmer's daughter, and of how the
rejected bailifE is foiled in the end by the young man whom
Nuala loves. Cast : 4 males and two females. Acted at
York Street, Dublin, December 15th, 1906.

*Plays by Rutherford Mayne.

The Turn of the Road. An Ulster Play in 2

Scenes and an Epilogue. Paper cover, Is. net.
Buckram, 2s. net. Belfast. (Maunsel.)

The scene is laid in County Down, and the characters are
of the farming class. One son takes to the fiddle, the other
to the farm. The artistic soul of the former tries to soar
above its surroundings in vain, and at last has to burst
its bounds and take wing out into the world. The play is
full of homely humour and pathos, and the character,
drawing excellent. First played by the Ulster Literary
Theatre, in Ulster Minor Hall, Belfast, on December 17th,
1906. Cast : 7 males and 3 females.

The Drone. A Comedy in 2 Acts. Is. (Maunsel.)

A study of County Down life jn a farmer's home. A
really laughable comedy, telling of the subterfuges of a
dronish but lovable old man who pretends he was ever and
always working at a great invention. First played at the
Abbey on April 24th, 1908, by the Ulster Literary Society.
When it was revived, the playwright had added a third act
to the play, and so it is published.

The Blackmouth. A Drama. (1908).

Never yet produced. Some years ago William MoUison
was thinking of appearing in it, but his company dissolved
before his doing so. Blackviouth is the name by which
Presbyterians are known up North. I might here mention
that MoUison, that fine Shakespearian actor, who was a
native of Dundee, died at his native place, in his 50th
year, on December 19th, 1911.

The Troth. A Play of Northern Life in 1 Act.

Time, About 1860. Two farmers come to the conclusion
that the landlord would be best out of the way, and toss
for who should do the deed. The wrong man is arrested,

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but the other keeps silent, because the accused is single
and he a married man. First played at the Crown, Peck-
ham, London, on October Slat, 1908. Cast : 3 males and
1 female.

- The Gomeril. A Farcical Comedy in 1 Act.

An amusing North of Ireland sketch. It merely tells of a
" gomeril " of a son being forestalled by his father in pro-
posing to a somewhat elderly spinster with money, and
the son's astonishment at being outdone. Cast : 3 men
and 1 woman. First acted by the Theatre of Ireland at
Rotunda on April 29th, 1909.

- Captain of the Hosts. A Modern Play.

The dramatist breaks away from his portrayal of County
Down life, and tells of a literary youth who has taken to
drink to hearten himself in the face of the sentence of
death passed on him by the doctor. He comes under the
spell of a young girl who helps her father at mission work
of some kind, and gives over the drink and helps in the
good work. The girl tires of her occupation, and longs for
freedom. So she goes away and the youth returns to his
bad habits, and death has a grip on him when she comes
back to urge him to resist the temptation for her sake.
The tragic figure of the doomed youth stands out splen-
didly; but the play is scarcely as successful as his country
comedy work. The atmosphere is too depressing. First
played by the Ulster Theatre Society at Grand Opera
House, Belfast, on March 7th, 1910.

- Red Turf. A Play in 1 Act.

Fir^t produced by the Ulster Literary Theatre at Grand
Opera House, Belfast, on Tuesday, December 5th, 1911,
and on Thursday, December 7th, 1911, at Abbey, by the
pupils of the Abbey' Theatre Dramatic Class, with Miss
O'Neill in the cast. Cast : 4 males and 1 female. Scene,
A cottage kitchen in the West of Ireland. The plot con-
cerns the ownership of a bank of turf, and tragedy is the
upshot of the settlement arrived at. The piece is a crude
essay in melodrama plus bad language. Alas ! that Mayne,
whose The Drone and The Turn of the Road are plays of
sheer delight, should have substituted a " string of curses
instead of dialogue " to suit the "art" tastes of the
Abbeyites.

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The Leprachaun. Play.

Acted at York Street, Dublin, December 16tli, 1906.

*Wheeler (Mrs.). The Matchmakers. A Comedy in 1
Act.

A pleasing little scene, conceived in lightly humorous way.
First played at Dublin Castle in March, 1906.

Blaney (Charles C). Mr. Blarney from Ireland. Play
in 4 Acts.

Produced at American Theatre, New York, January 1st,
1906.

*Langbridge (Rosamund). The Spell. A Peasant
Play in 2 Scenes.

A strange, weird little piece, chock-full of superstition.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Harvey and Miss Mary Rorke ap-
peared in the original cast. Cast : 1 man and 2 women.
First produced at Theatre Royal, Manchester, on Novem-
ber 2nd, 1906. This play was afterwards performed under
the title of The Tragedy of Truth. Incidental music by
Norman O'Neill.

Taepey (William Kingsley). Sigrid. A Play in 1
Act.

An Irish tragedy founded on a story, " The Merrow," by
Mrs. Tarpey. It was written for the Irish National
Theatre, and was intended for production at the Abbey
Theatre, when three years passed without production,
Mr. Tarpey withdrew the piece from the Abbey manage-
ment. It remains unpublished. The author was born in
Dublin on December 18th, 1867, and died on August 20th,
1911, in Scotland. He wrote several dramatic works.
His comedy. The Amateur Socialist, was very successful.

*McAlister (Alester), " Anthony P. Wharton." Nelly
Delane (?). A Play in 1 Act. '0.907).

The fate of this play is interesting. It was refused at the
Abbey and then sent on to Lena Ashwell, and accepted by
her, and the MS. lost — the author having kept no copy.
The actress then commissioned him to write a longer play

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Irene Wycherly was the result. This piece was the success
of the London Season, 1907, in which it was producetl.
Since then the author has only written a short dream play,
entitled, A 'Nocturne. His first piece — a little one-aot
comedy — The Desperate Lover — was produced for the first
time on any stage at the Gaiety, Dublin, May 12th, 1905.
The author was given as " Henry Alexander." The
Compton Comedy Company produced it. Plot of lost M.S.
A girl comes up to Dublin to become a typist, and is lead
astray. She returns home, and a priest who gets to know
of her trouble, tries to keep her at home, and she consents
to stay. Cast : 2 males and 2 females. It is announced
that this dramatist has written a comedy, entitled. At the
Barn, for Marie Tempest.

FiTZMAUKiCE (George). The Country Dressmaker. A
Comedy in 3 Acts, with West Kerry as the scene
of action.

A clever play, with some effective character-sketching in
it. The' story it tells is of a dressmaker, who believes in
the lover of her youth being true to her, though gone to
foreign parts, and remains single for his sake. Ultimately
she is awakened from her dream, but on his return the old
love for her burns anew, and all comes right in the end.
Cast : 7 males and 5 females. First played at the Abbey
on October 3rd, 1907.

- The Piedish. A Play in 1 Act.

This is another play where the artistic spirit is misplaced,
and the poor old man who possesses it amid humble sur-
roundings dies before what he has lived for is accomplished.
The piedish on which his artistic soul expanded falls from
his hands and is shattered as he expires. First performed
at the Abbey in March, 1908. Cast : 4 males and 2 females.

•'Letts (Miss W. M.). The Eyes of the Blind. A Play
in 1 Act.

A powerful, " creepy " little sketch, in which a blind man,
through " second sight," tells of a murder in such a way
that the unsuspected murderer, who is present, owns up
to his having committed the crime. Cast : 2 males and 1
female. First played at the Abbey on April 1st, 1907.

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The Challenge. A Play in 1 Act.

The dramatist gives us a glimpse into Old Dublin in this
play, and places the scene in a room on the north side of
the city, about the year 1890. Two old cronies meet, and
in chatting of old times they recall the love of each for a
certain young lady, and the recollection leads to a chal-
lenge. The old fogies face one another ^\ith pistols in their
hands, and one drops dead from heart failure ere a shot is
fired. The piece -was first played at the Abbey on October
14th, 1909, and contains three parts.

- The Socialists. Comedy in 4 Acts.
Not yet played.

''Maughan (William Somerset). Lady Frederick. A
Comedy in 3 Acts.

The title part is that of a lady of Irish origin of adventuress-
type, with the germ of her better nature still clinging to
her. A youth becomes enamoured of her, and she nobly
cures him of his mad infatuation by letting him into the
secrets of her " make-up." Ethel Irving made a big hit as
" Lady Frederick." Originally played at Court, London,
on October 26th, 1907. Cast: 8 ~males and 5 females.
Mr. Maughan was born 1874.

O'TooLE (Lorcan). The Exile. A Bi-lingual Play in
2 Scenes. 6d. (Dem^ocrat Office, Monaghan, 1907).

The play claims to be a faithful portrayal of the craze for
emigration that has taken such a hold on the minds of the
youth of Ireland, their idea being that they need only leave
Ireland to realise a rapid fortune. Cast : 4 males, 3
females, and a group of villagers.

'■'Plays by Seumas O'Kelly.

The ItilatGhmakers. A Farce in 1 Act.

Tells in merry fashion how the neighbours bring an ill-
assorted pair together, and succeed in making a match of
it for them. First played by the Theatre of Ireland at the
Abbey on December 13th, 1907. Cottage interior.

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The Flame on the Hearth. A Play in 1 Act.

Michael Dwyer, when " on his keeping," comes to a cot-
tage at night, and begs shelter of the woman of the house.
She gives it to him, but when her husband, who is a yeoman,
returns, he recognises in the sleeping man the rebel he
and his men were seeking. The wife begs that he will let
Dwyer stay where he is, and threatens' to leave him alto-
gether if he refuse her request. He grants it her, and
when some yeomen call, he has no information to give
them. Cast : 2 males, 1 female, and some soldiers. First
played by the Theatre of Ireland at Abbey' Theatre on
November 23rd, 1908.

The Shuiler's Child. A Play in 2 Acts. Is.

(Maunsel.)

The problem this play has to expound is of a tramp, Moll
Woods, who deserts her child, and of a childless husband
and wife who adopt it, and grow to love it as their own.
"When the mother sees her child again she longs to have it
back with her. This the law will not allow. Ultimately
the poor wretch agrees to leave it with the kindly pair,
and she is arrested for deserting it in the long ago. A
po'sverful and clever drama, and by far the most ambitious
play this playwright has as yet attempted. Mary "Walker's
acting was notably clever and touching, as " Moll Woods."
First played by the Theatre of Ireland at the Botunda,
Dublin, on April 29th, 1909.

The Homecoming. An Incident in 1 Act.

Depicts the homecoming of reinstated tenants, and the
death of the aged mother in the joy of her return to the old
home. A pathetic little episode skillfully handled. First
played by the Theatre of Ireland at Molesworth Hall, on
March 28th, 1910. Cast : 2 males and 1 female.

*McManus (Miss L.). O'Donnell's Cross. A Play in 3
Acts.

First produced by National Players at Botunda on October
31st, 1907. Cast : 11 males and 2 females.

The Sun God. 1-Act Play.

Scene, The Camp of the Celts before -Delphi, 280 B.C.
Cast : 6 males and 3 females. Published in Irish Weekly
Independent, December 13th, 1902.

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'•^O'Laugiilin (Gerald). The Rapparee. A Play in 1
Act.

Scene, a country inn, after King James's defeat at
Limerick. One of the Williamite officers insults the inn-
keeper's daughter, who is engaged to one of the Jacobite
soldiers. He is on the spot, and demands satisfaction of
the officer. The girl comes between them as they fight,
and is killed. A rapparee, whom the officer has wronged,
comes on the scene, crosses swords with him, and slays
him. The play is written in popular style. Cast : 6 men
and 1 woman. First produced at the Queen's, Dublin, on
March 18th, 1907.

Eansley (H. Gerald). The Rising o' the Moon. Four-
Act Melodrama.

Produced, College Hall, Liverpool, April 18th, 1907. Cast:
9 males and 3 females.

'^ Casey (W. F.). The Man Who Missed the Tide. A
Play in 3 Acts.

This is a very sad play, full of tragic touches, and tells
with unerring pathos of the downward journey of a
" spoiled priest." It is a great favourite with the public,
chiefly owing to the wonderfully realistic and pathetic
" playing " of the principal role by Fred O 'Donovan. It
was first played at the Abbey on February 13th, 1908, with
great success, but the playwright has since revised and
partly re-written it. The character-drawing is excellent.
Cast : 4 female and 3 male parts.

• The Suburban Grove. A Mild Scene in 3 Acts.

In this play the monotonous lives of the average suburban
middle-class people are agreeably hit off. Its slender story
is of the wooing of two men and a maid the one ambi-
tious, and the other of the conceited Johnny-type, and
the maid a sweet, lovable girl of everyday pattern. The
delightful comedy playing of the young fop, " Claude
Callan," by Arthur Sinclair, made the piece hit the public
taste at once. First played at Abbey on October 1st 1908.
Cast : 2 female and 4 male characters. Scene, an interior."

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*FiTZPATEiCK (Nora) and *Markievicz (Casimir
Dunin). Plome, Sweet Home. A Belfast Farce
in 1 Act.

It depicts the home-ooming of a daughter with her young
man — a sort of silly-ass swell — to her father's, and the
adventures of the affected fellow amongst the plain, hard-
headed lot of uncouth Northerns. The oast consists of 4
male and 4 female characters. It was first performed by
the Independent Dramatic Company at the Abbey on
December 3rd, 1908.

*Campbell (Rev. John). The Battle of Castleknock. A
Pageant.

Period, second century. Enacted on the very site of the
battle in the summer of 1908, by the students of St. Vin-
cent's College, Castleknock. Produced by Fred Morrow,
who has made a speciality of Irish pageants.

St. Patrick at Castleknock. An Irish Historical

Pageant Play in 2 Acts and 7 Scenes. (Browne
and Nolan).

Period, the middle of the fifth century. It graphically
relates the disputes of the Kings of Meath and Leinster
over the Brou Tribute, and the coming of St. Patrick and
conversion of the King of Ijeinster, his family and fol-
lowers. First played at St. Vincent's College, Castleknock,
on May 24th, 1910, under the shadow of the old castle
that stands on the hill-top amid stately trees, with the
bird's merry note whistling through the spoken words of
the players. A splendid pageant for schoolboys.

*" Harding " (Eubert). Leaders of the People. A Play
in 2 Scenes.

The action is laid in the Committee Rooms of a Parlia-
mentary candidate, and the scene is one of excitement
and the airing of political views of many shades of opinion.
First played by the Ulster Literary Theatre at the Abbey
on April 24th, 1908. Cast : 6 males and 1 female. J. W.
Good, dramatic critic in the Northern Whig, is the author's
real name.

*EsMOND (H. v.). The O'Grindles. A Play in 3 Acts.

The plot is laid in the early part of the nineteenth century,
and the rollicking Ireland of Lever and Lover is called

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into being by the dramatist with fair theatrical effective-
ness. Two brothers— one good and one bad— figure pro-
minently in the play; and the good, for a time, is awarded
the other's faults, so that his course of true love does not
run smooth until his character is cleared, and all made
right in the end. The piece was produced at the Play-
house, London, by Cyril Maude and his company early
in 1908, where it ran for some time. Cast : 14 males and 4
females. Mr. Esmond was born at Hampton Court,
November 30th, 1869.

HiLLiER (Mirabel). Peggy Doyle. Play in 3 Acts.
Rehearsal Theatre, June 27th, 1908.

'•'Plays by Johanna Redmond.

Leap Year in the West. A Dialogue in 1 Act.

A dainty little Ii'ish love story, sweetly told. First produc
tion in Court Theatre, London, by the Irish Stage Society
on July 2nd, 1908. Miss Eedmond is a daughter of John
Redmond, M.P., the Leader of the Lish Party.

Falsely True. An Irish Play in 1 Act.

An incident after the Robert Emmet Rising in 1803. There
are three characters — mother, father, and son. The scene
is laid in a cottage at Wicklow. A peasant and liis wife
are awaiting some news of their Jwo boys, who had been
arrested for taking part in the rising. The eldest boy re-
turns with news that his brother has died of his wounds
in prison, and soon it is told how he had turned informer
to save his brother, only to find out he was dead all the
while. The scone between the parents and their son on
learning this makes up the sad episode round which the
sketch is dramatically built. First played at the Palace
Theatre, London, on March 6th, 1911.

Honor's Choice. A 1-Act Comedy Sketch.

Queen's, Dublin, July 3rd, 1911. Scene, cottage interior.
A pleasing little love episode, in which Honor chooses be-
tween a poet and a workman. Cast : 2 males and 2
females.

Pro Patria. A Drama in 1 Act.

First performance, Queen's, Dublin, September 4th, 1911
(afternoon), by members of the Irish Theatre and National

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Stage Company. The scene is laid in a cottage interior on
the Wioklow hills during the winter of 1798, and the plot
is a stirring one, in which Michael Dwyer and a party of
rebels are attacked, and Dwyer being wounded, a youth
who is in love with the girl of the house takes his place
and is captured, and taken forth to meet his death — leav-
ing the girl of his heart lamenting his loss. Cast : 5 males
and 2 females, and " supers."

The Best of a Bad Bargain. A New Play in 1

Act (two short scenes), founded on an episode of
Irish country life.

Scene, the interior of a farm-house. Time, the present.
A widow finds she has two strings to her bow — an oldish
farmer with some money, and a )oung blacksmith with
none. At first she is undecided which she will have.
Finally she " pairs ofi " with the old fellow, making the
best of a bad bargain. First played at Gaiety Theatre,
Dublin, on July 26th, 1911. Cast : 2 males and 1 female.

The Rehearsal. A Pla,y in 1 Act.

The scene is laid in a New York breakfast room. Cast :
2 males and 2 females. The plot runs thus : — Nora Lane,
recently married, is discovered by her husband making an
appointment with the lover of a friend of hers, and the
husband naturally intervenes only to discover that they
have been rehearsing in theatricals. The characters are
Irish in name. First played at Queen's Gate Hall, London,
December 2, 1911.

•■CoNNELL (Norreys). The Piper. An Unfinished
Argument in 1 Act.

Scene, the Rebellion of '98. Though set far back into other
years, the piece has a present-day significance underlying
it. " Talk " — the curse of this country — is its keynote.
That the Irish are insanely brave, impracticable and hope-
lessly talkative, is the lesson the dramatist wishes to drive
home. First played at the Abbey on February 13th, 1908.
Conal O'Riordan is the author's real name.

An Imaginary Conversation. A Play in 1 Act.

This is a little piece in which Robert Emmet and Tom
Moore talk freely over eventful matters yet to ripen. Cast :
2 males and 1 female. First played at the Abbey on May
2nd, 1909. -

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Murphy's Affinity. Sketch.

Produced at the Surrey, March 2nd, 1908.

The Parting of the Ways. Drama, written and pro-
duced by the Davis Branch Gaelic League, May 1,
1908.
Horns Assembly Rooms, Kennington.

Pat and the Genii. Sketch.

Alhambra, London, August 3rd, 1908.

■■•■Plays by S. L. Robinson.

■ • The Clancy Name. A Play in 1 Act.

Mrs. Clancy, who is proud of the name, learns from her
only sou that he has committed a murder, and intends
giving himself up to the police. She entreats him not to
do so, as it would blacken the Clancy name for ever; but
he heeds her not, and goes out of the house. Hot foot
after, in trying to save a child from being run over by a
runaway horse, he is knocked down and killed, and so the
Clancy name is saved — her boy has died a hero ! A power-
ful little play, and the first written by its author. First
played at the Abbey on October 8th, 1908. Cast r 3 males,
2 females, and a group of peasants.

The Cross Roads. A Play in Prologue and 2

Acts. Is. (Maunsel.)

Tells of how a West Cork country girl nt the cross-roads
of life jilts the man she loves for one in a better worldly
position, and how she is made to rue the day in after years.
Many are of opinion that this is the most dramatically
powerful of all the Abbey plays. Certainly few stronger
scenes arc to be found in drama than that between husband
and wife and rejected lover in Act 2. As acted now, the
prologue is omitted. The scene is laid in West Cork.
There are five characters in the play — 3 male and 2 female.
First played at the Abbey on April 1st, 1909.

The Lo'Ssoji of Life. A Comedy in 1 Act.

It deals Avith a rural youth of wild ways, and of his refor-
mation by ingenious means. A cleverly-written little play.
Cast : 4 males and 1 female. First played at the Dun,
Cork, on December 2nd, 1909.

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• Harvest. A Play in 3 Acts.

A powerful, unpleasant, depressing play, telling of tlie ill-
effeots of over-education on a peasant-farmer's family, and
the rich harvest of failures it produces. The piece is full
of clever characterisation and grips an audience. The scene
is laid at Knockmalgloss, Co. Cork, at the present day.
There are eight in the cast — 4 male and 4 female parts.
First played at the Abbey on May 19th, 1910.

MaoDonagh (Thomas). When the Dawn is Come. A
Tragedy in 3 Atets.

A sort of peep into the future, with the scene laid twenty
years hence. Ireland is being set free from the yoke of
the stranger, and we are in the Irish camp all the while.
The plot concerns the supposed treachery of an Irish officer,
which cannot be maintained by his accusers. It is next to
impossible to make a play of this kind come convincingly
across the footlights. First played at the Abbey on
October ISth, 1908.

Sweet Innisfail. Sketch.

Richmond Hippodrome, October 26th, 1908.

Behingee (Mrs. Oscar), nee Amy Daniell. Katherine
Kavanagh. Play.

Mrs. Beringer was born in Philadelphia, 1856. _

Geaves (Arnold). Stella and Vanessa. A Drama in
4 Acts.

A play, with Dean Swift as hero. First played at the
Irish Theatrical Club, Dublin, on December 10th, 1908.

Tynan (Katharine). The Stepmother. Playlet.

Cast : 1 male and 2 females. Scene : The best parlour in
Bridget McCann's farmhouse. A love story, in which u.
stepmother makes up a match between her stepdaughter
and a likely young fellow — ^the stepdaughter thinking she
wanted him for herself at first. This piece appeared in
the St. Patrick's Day Number of the Weekly Freeman,
1909. (March 20th). This authoress was borii in Dublin,
February 3rd, 1861.

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The Boy-Deeds of Guchulain. A Pageant in 3 Acts.

Performed by the pupils of St. Enda's School, in the
school grounds, on June 22nd, 1909. Act 1 — Cuchulain
takes the Boy-Corps under his protection. Act 2 — He slays
Culaun's hound. Act 3 — He takes arms. A splendid
pageant for boys.

*FoRBES (James). The Chorus Lady. Comedy in 4
Acts.

First time in England at Vaudeville, London, April 19th,
1909. Rose Stahl made a great hit as " Patricia
O'Brien," a chorus lady, who sacrifices herself to save
her sister's name from disgrace. Cast : 8 males and 11
females.

*CoEKERY (Daniel). The Embers. A Play in 3 Acts.

" The Embers " are the embers of patriotic Fenianism and
rebellion which have smouldered for twenty years in the
village of Cooladuo. They glow into flame at the home-
coming of a Fenian, who has been for years in prison.
They strike fire in the heart of Lawrence Kiely, the son
of a prominent man of the town. The youth gives vent
to his opinions, and is disowned by his father. He tries
in vain to plant his views in the breasts of others, and
ultimately dies a lonely man in a lonely room, with all
his feverish enthusiasm blighted by the scorn of others.
A strong but saddening play. First performed by the
Cork Dramatic Society on May 6th, 1909, at the Dun, Cork.

The Hermit and the King. A Play in 1 Act.

This little piece is symbolical in treatment, and is con-
cerned with two brothers — one representing the material,
and the other the spiritual side of life. The play ends as
a note of triumph for the spiritual. Cast : 5 males and a
boy. First played at the Dun, Cork, on December 2nd,
1909.

The Onus of Ownership. A Piece of Robust

Comedy, dealing with the troubles of a man of
property.

Originally played at Cork in Easter week, April 19th, 1911.
Cast : 4 males and 3 females.

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The Epilogue. An Extravaganza.

Scene : The Room in a Stranded Dramatic Society, not in.
Cork. The cast comprises of actors and poets, the secre-
tary of the society and an old man — 8 males and 2 females.
First produced by the Cork Dramatic Society at the Dun
Theatre, Queen Street, Cork, Thursday, May 18, 1910.
This society is now in existence for a little over two years,
ind has produced 12 new plays by 6 authors.

The Return of Lugh. An Historical Pageant, founded
on Alice llilligan's Poem on the same subject.

First played at Marino, Clontarf, on August 25th, 1909,
at the close of day, with limelight effects, amongst the
mysterious shadows of the trees. A beautiful spectacle.

*]MuRRAY (T. C). The Wheel o' Fortune. A Play in 1
Act.

The play is concerned with match-making in a rural dis-
trict! Cast : 6 males and 2 females. First produced by
the Cork Dramatic Society at the Dun, Cork, December
2nd, 1909.

Birthright. A Play in 2 Acts.

A very powerful, realistic little play of peasant life in
West Cork in the present day. The four principal parts
of father, mother, and two sons are admirably drawn. The
eldest boy is a bit of a dreamer, and the youngest a true
son of toil. The mother is all for the eldest boy, and the
father for the younger lad. The father ultimately dis-
inherits the first-born, with tragic result to the family.
The play was first produced in the Abbey Theatre on
October 27th, 1910. Cast : 5 male and 1 female character.
Scene, cottage interior. In the revised version of the play
the character of the " Schoolmaster " was omitted. The
Abbey Company opened their first American tour with this
piece at the New Plymouth Theatre, Boston, Monday,
September 6th, 1911. " In the Shadow of the Glen " and
" Hyacinth Halvey " were also on the opening bill.

The Levite. A Play in 2 Acts.

It is a delicately and pathetically told story of a youth
who found he had no vocation for the priesthood, and the
effects his failure has on his people'. Accepted by the
Abbey. Mr. Murray is a National school teacher at
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Eithne. An Irish Legendary Grand Opera in 3 Acts.
Music by Robert O'Dwyer. Libretto, in Gaelic and
English' translation, by Rev. Thomas O'Kelly.

The plot tells how Ceart, the eldest son of the High King
of Erin, wins the love of Eithne, the daughter of the King
of Tir-na-n-Og, and frees' the Queen, Nuala, his foster-
mother, from a spell that banished her from the Fairy
Kingdom. First sung in Gaelic at Rotunda on August
2nd, 1909.

■■^DoYLE (Arthur Conan). Fires of Fate. Modern
Morality Play in 4 Acts.

An exciting play, telling of an excursion party- captured
by Dervishes, and their fate. Two members of the party are
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Belmont from Dublin. First produced
at the Lyric, London, on June 15th, 1909. Shiel Barry,
son of the famous Irish actor of that name, made a big
success as " Abdullah," a dragoman, who betrays the
party. Cast : 13 males and 3 females.

'•'Choker (Mrs. B. M.). Terence. A Romantic Irish
Comedy in 4 Acts.

The play is an adaptation of Mrs. Croker's from her novel of
the same name. The title role is that of an Irish gentleman
so 1 educed in fortune as to become driver of the stage
coach. He falls in love with a lady, and asserts his right
to marry her. The story is interestingly told by the drama-
tist. First played at Gaiety, Dublin, on March 1st, 1909.
Cast : 7 males and 7 females.

*Bennett (Arnold). What the Public Wants. A Play
in 4 Acts.

Produced at Aldwych, London, May 3rd, 1909. W.
G-. Fay, the founder of the Irish drsmatic movement,
played the role of " Holt St. John " — an Irish theatrical
manager— in the original oast. Cast : 10 males and 6
females.

*Iewin (Father), The Irish Attorney. Play.

Produced at St. Mary's Hall, E. London. (Produced bv
amateurs.) June 1st, 1909.

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*MoBAN (James). The Feman's Death. A Play in 3
Acts.
First played at Bathkeale on October 7th, 1909.

*" Ray " (R. P.). Tlie White Feather. A. Play in 3
Acts.

A peasant play, conceived in the direst gloom, ending in a
scene depicting the last moments of a condemned man in
his cell before he goes out to meet his terrible fate.
Played at the Abbey, for the first time, on September 16th,
1909. " Ray " is the pen name of Mr. Brophy, of the
Corh Constitution.

The Casting Out of Martin Whelan. A Play in

3 Acts.

The action of the play takes place thirty years ago, and
ill it the author has tried to depict the attitude of the
peasantry of the time towards informers. Martin Whelan,
an Australian, born of Irish parents, comes to Ireland, and
is made much of by the people until it becomes known
that his mother's father was an informer who fled the
country years ago by the aid of Government money. Then
they turn against him, and blot him out of their lives.
Some of the peasant types are well observed, but the two
principal characters arc scarcely convincing. The cast is a
big one — 7 males, 3 females, and a number of peasants.
First played at the Abbey Theatre, September 30th, 1910.

* Alfred (E. F.). The Lost Heir. A Play.

First performance. Theatre Royal, Waterford, on Novem-
ber 24th, 1909.

Meagher of the Sword. An Irish Historical

Play.

Played at Theatre Royal, Waterford, in November, 1909.

- The Croppy Boy. An Irish Historical Drama
in 4 Acts.

The scene of this piece is laid in Wexford county during
the exciting times of the '98 rising. The drama is full of
stirring incidents. Cast : 8 males and 2 females. First
played in Theatre Royal, Waterford, on Thursday, January
5th, 1911, by the " Meagher of the Sword " Company,

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*" MacNamaea " (Gerald). The Mist that Does Be on
the Bog. A Skit in 1 Act.

An amusing little piece, in which the Abbey plays come in
for some mild and delightful satire. First produced at the
Abbey by the Ulster Literary Theatre on November 26th,
1909. " MacNamara " hides the identity of one of the
Morrow brothers — George, I think.

Staunton (M. J.). The Pati-iot Priest. Drama.

Played at Father Mathew Hall, Dublin, on March 29th,
1909.

Htckey (Patrick). Pious Dublin.
(Not yet acted).

MacManus (J. B.). Up for the Green.
(Not yet noted).

Robinson (Percy). Rebel and Redcoat. Pla}^
(Not yet acted).

'■■J\ToYLAN (Thomas King). Paid in His Own Coin. A
Comedy in 3 Acts.

A thoroughly amusing piece, telling of a trick a young
country girl played, who had two strings to her bow, to
clear the one of her choice, who was poor, from debt on his
farm at the expense of the other, who was mean and
grasping. The way the latter was " paid in his own coin "
by the artful girl is most amusingly set forth in the comedy.
The " Breach of Promise " case in the last act is a delight-
ful burlesque on the real article. Cast : 6 males, 3 females,
and a group of jurymen, etc. First played at the Metro-
politan School of Art, Dublin, by the students on March
18th, 1909.

Naboclish. A Practical Joke in 2 Acts.

An English tourist finds himself in the County Clare in
the cabin of a peasant-farmer. He possesses all the absurd
notions and ideas of the Irish that his countrymen usually
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societies, and says so. This gives a cue to his host to
have a great big laugh at his visitor's expense, and he gets
some of the neighbours to pretend to hold a meeting of a
secret society, at which the Englishman is present. They
fairly startle him out of his wits, and send him ilying over
the country with the fear of death at his heels. The
Naboclish is the name given to the bogus society. This
piece is immensely funny, and the character of " George
Herbert Chantilly Smith " worthy to stand beside Shaw's
" Broadbent." First played at the Abbey on May 31st,
1910, by the Students' Union of the Metropolitan School
of Art. Cast : 6 men and 1 woman,

Uncle Pat,

First played by students of the Dublin School of Art, July
28th, 1910. One-act play. Cast : 3 females and 4 males.

The Sponge.

(Not yet acted).

■•■Babden (Hugh). The Stonn. A Play in 1 Act.

This is a sad and tragic little tale of the sea. The sudden
cowardice of a son of an old lifeboat man (through a
dream he had had) to take his place in the lifeboat when
a " call " is made, prompts the old man to go in his stead.
He gets a knock on the head in launching, the boat, and is
taken home to die as his son goes off to " man " the boat
with the others. The father in dying sees a vision of his son
drowning, as the son himself had seen in the dream that
had frightened him. Characters : 3 males, 2 females, and
a group of neighbours and sailors. First played at the
Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, by the Students'
Union, on March 18th, 1909.

'•'Kelleher (D. L.). Stephen Gray. A Dream and an
Incident in 1 Act.

A strange little play, in which a dream merges into reality
in scarcely convincing way. First played at the Abbey on
March 11th, 1909.

0"DwyER (Delia). The Land Hunger. A Play in 3

Acts.

Not yet played.

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O'Brien (Mary). The Call of the West. Play.

Not yet played.

O'Kelly (Sean). An Orphan Boy.
Not yet played.

* Allen (Ira) . Father Murphy ; or, The Hero of Tallo^^^
An Irish Drama.

First performed by the Irish Amateur Theatrical Company,
at Workmen's Club, York Street, Dublin, on November
17th, 1909.

The Spy of the Glen; or, The Patriot's Eeturn.

Romantic Irish Drama in 4 Acts.

Dealing with the '98 period. Played in Dublin, February
22nd, 1911, at St. Teresa's Hall.

Major McFee, M.P. A Farce.

Produced for the first time at the Workmen's Club, York
Street, Dublin.

Wyley (Thomas F.). Freedom's Cause; or, O'Donnell
the Outlaw. A Romantic Irish Drama.

First played in Theatre Royal, Waterford, by the Water-
ford Dramatic Society, on December 6th, 1909.

Humphries (Alexander), Music by. Happy Hooligan.
American Extravaganza in 3 Acts.

First time in London at the Lyric, Hammersmith, Septem-
ber 27th, 1909. Cast : 16 males and 6 females. Three at
least of the characters bear Irish names.

J. O'E. The Spurious Sovereign; or, Nailed to the
Counter. A Burlesque in a Prologue and 4 Acts.

A too long drawn out to be funny skit on an obsolete type
of melodrama, in which the rightful heir to the throne is
captured by pirates, and the pirate chief reigns in his stead
for the time being until the rightful one returns. First
produced by the Theatre of Ireland at Molesworth Hall,
Dublin, on March 28th, 1910. Twelve characters in .the
cast-

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O'Leary (Con). Struck. A Play in 1. Act.

A true picture in all its disagreeable and saddening details
of a strike in Cork; but unfortunately the piece depends
more on its dialogue than on its action to carry it through.
Less dialogue and more action would be a gain to th^ play.
The Cork Dramatia Society first introduced it on the stage
on May 11th, 1910.

^^^McCaethy (Justin Huntly). The O'Flynn. ( A Tale
of Love and War.) In 4 Acts.

The action takes place in Ireland in the year 1690, and
the play is full of exciting incidents, with The O'Flynn
as the central figure in them all. It was first produced
at His Majesty's Theatre, London, on February 1st, 1910,
with Beerbohm Tree in the title role. The play is of the
go-as-you-please melodramatic order, full of intrigue and
love-making. As there are twenty-four characters in the
cast and six scenes, it is only suitable for a large stage.
Mr. McCarthy is a son of Justin McCarthy. He was born
on September 30th, 1860.

The Fair Irish Maid. Play.

Copyright performance in October, 1911, in London. The
play is founded on a novel of the same name. The scene
is laid first in Ireland and then in London, in the years
1814-18. It is a love story, and tells how the fair Irish
maid — the last of an old and ruined family, suddenly finds
herself very rich, and for a season the queen of London
society — ^which brings many experiences into her life.

*DowNEY ( — ). Rag. A School Play in 3 Acts.

It is a simple little play of convent school life in Ireland,
admirably adopted for girls' schools " break up " days. It
tells of a little girl, nicknamed " Rag," because of her
mischievous ways, and of how another girl, whom she had
always been nasty to, befriends her when trouble comes to
her. Cast : 9 females. Published (anonymously) by M.
H. Gill and Son, 1910. The author is a son of Edmund
Downey, of Waterford, whose Irish stories are so well
known. This little play has already been performed with
much success, and Bishop Shoehan " found it interesting,
the plot good, the dialogue flowing and pleasant; the
moral tone sound; and the play suitable for young girls'
schools."

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Glaric (C. a.). On the Shores of the Shannon. Drama.

Produced for the first time in England at Liverpool, June
13th 1910. Cast : 8 males and i females. " Cecil Ravens-
wood " (Aery Jacob) played the part of " Father Fogarty."
This aotor was a well-known professor of elocution in
Dublin before he went on the stage.

Outcasts of Dublin ; or, Weeds and Flowers of Erin. A
Comedy Melodrama in 5 Acts.

A crude, conventional, sensational melodrama of little or
no merit. Played at Queen's, Dublin, June 6th, 1910.
Cast : 10 males and 3 females.

^'^'- Pleydell " (George) and Mason (A. E. W.). The
Princess Clementina . A Romantic Play in 4 Acts
and 8 Scenes. Adapted from Mason's Novel,
" Clementina."

The period of the play is 1718, and the hero, Charles
Wogan, an Irish adventurer, the faithful adherent of James
Stuart. The plot tells of how Wogan goes to rescue the
Princess, the betrothed of the " Old Pretender," and falls
in love with her himself. The play is full of excitement
and adventure. Cast : 19 males and 5 females. First pro-
duction, with H. B. Irving as "Wogan," at the Royal,
Cardiff, on December 1st, 1910. A son of Sir Squire'
Bancroft writes under the name of " Pleydell."

^•Teaese (M. B.). The Message. A Play in 1 Act and
an Epilogue.

It contains a pretty idea poetically worked out. Some rich
folk wish to adopt a little peasant child, and Donal, a
musician, ^^■ho loves the child, rails against the adoption,
as he thinks it would estrange her from her people and
' from Ireland , as the rich and the poor are opposed to each
other in this country. Through the power of his sadly
sweet music he wins over one of those wealthy folk to his
way of thinking, and she, seeing things with his eyes, and
confessing her love for him, determines to love both her
country and him for ever more. The play is full of kindly
sentiment and love of country. Kitchen scene. Cast : 3
males, 4 females, and 2 children. First played at Abbey
by the Leinster Stage Society on May 27th, 1910.

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Over the Stile. A Play in 2 Scenes.

This is a bright little piece, with love-making as its chief
ingredient. An old man tries to play a practical joke on
two loving couples and fails in his attempt, with the
result — he gives them his blessing, and all is right as right
can be in the end. Exterior scenes. Cast : 3 males and 3
females. A four-handed reel can be introduced with effect
in scene one. Bevival version played at Abbey by Leinster
Stage Society, May 22, 1910.

■•■Markievicz (Casimir Dunin). The Memory of the
Dead. A Romantic Drama of '98 in 3 Acts.

This is a stirring story, with the rising of the year '98 as
a background. " If patriotic sentiment is wanted, we've
patriotic sentiment out and dry" in plenty in this play;
and the story it tells is of two rivals for the hand of a
maiden fair to see. The play was first produced at the
Abbey by the Independent Dramatic Company on April
14th, 1910. There are nine characters (seven male and two
female) and two scenes in the play. It is full of " piping
hot " patriotism to suit popular audiences. In a revised
version played at the Queen's, Dublin, on April 15th, 1911,
an entire new scene was added to the text.

Rival Stars. A Play in 3 Acts.

A study of Bohemian artistic life in Paris. One of the
most real characters in the piece is an old servant, Mary,
hailing from Tyrone. Nora Fitzpatriok created this role.
Cast : 6 males and 3 females. First produced at the Gaiety,
Dublin, by The Independent Theatre Co. on December 12,
1911.

■■••TiGHE (Michael J.) The Mayor of Galway. An His-
torical Tragedy, founded on the incident of young
Lynch being hanged by his father.

Produced in Galway in 1910.

•■■McSwiNEY (T. J.). The Last Warriors of Coole. A
Hero Play in Verse in 1 Act, dealing with the
coming of Fionn.

The last warriors of Coole find their power passing away
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Crimal has kept them alive by his dream of the coming of
Fionn, who, having defeated the Men of Morna, rescued
them in the end. Successfully produced by the Cork
Dramatic Society in the Dun Theatre on November 2nd,
1910. Oast : 6 male characters. Scene, a retreat in a wood.

The Holocaust. A One-Act Tragedy of sluiu

life, in which the problems of unemployment,
underfeeding, joylessness, and unregarded misery
are touched upon with dramatic effectiveness.

Cast : 3 males, 1 female, and 1 child. First played at the
Dun, Cork, on' December 27th, 1910.

Manners Masketh Man. A little Drawingrooni

Comedy in a light vein of satire.

Produced for the first time at Cork in Easter week, 1911,
by the Cork Dramatic Society, April 19th. Cast : 1 raalc
and 4 females.

The Wooing of Emer. A Play in 3 Acts.

Act 1 takes place in the shadow of trees by the river beyond
the Dun of Forgal, and Acts 2 and 3 within the rampart of
the Dun. Cast : 9 males, 2 females, warriors, etc. First
performance by the Cork Dramatic Society at the Dun
Theatre, Queen Street, Cork, Wednesday, December 6,
1911.

Burns (Tom). Colonel O'Shea's Wager.
Not yet acted.

Hanly (John). Angela A Play in 4 Acts.
Not yet acted.

Reilly (Miss Anne). Alone. Sketch.
Not yet acted.

*0xENF0RD (Edward), libretto by; and ^'^Bozzelli
(Signor), music by. The Lord of Corrigogunnel.
Cantata, founded on an old Irish legend.

First sung in Dublin on March 1st, 1910, at Antient Con-
cert Booms, the composer conducting.

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*Harty (Hamilton), music by. With the Wild Geese.
Tone Poem, written for and produced at the Car-
diff Festival in September, 1910.

The music having for its basis two poems on the subject
by Emily Lawless. They tell of the Irish exiles who iled
to the Continent on the surrender of Limerick in 1091,
where they became soldiers of foi'tune, noted for their
bravery, particularly at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745.
At this battle the majority of them perished, and a legend
tells that their ghosts sailed back to Ireland. It is this
episode that Mr. Hnrty illustrates, and it has inspired him
witli several significant themes.

"*BouBKE (P. J.). When Wexford Rose. A Historical
Melodrama of the '98 Period.

Produced by the New Ireland Dramatic Society on May
5th, 1910, in Dublin. It has the fault of having a number
of short scenes, involving frequent changes of scenery.
The sentiment of the piece is all right for popular Irish
audiences.

*LowBY (A.). The West Briton's Romance.

The writer of this play was the winner of the Oireachtas
drama prize, 1910.

Himself and the Widda. A 1-Act Comedy.

This amusing little piece was first played in St. Martin's
Hall, Liverpool, by the dramatic branch of the Gaelic
League, " The Irish Amateurs," on November 6th, 1911.
Mr. Lowry is a local author.

BouRKE (P. J.). The Northern Insurgent. Play.

The scene is laid in County Antrim in 1798. Played at
new National Schools, North Rutland Street, Wednesday,
January 3, 1912, with author in cast.

*HuESON (George J.). A Daughter of Ireland. Irish
Drama in 4 Acts and 8 Scenes.

A popular play of the '98 period, full of excitement. A
love story of interest is woven into the incidents of the
troubled times, with a strong part for the heroine. Cast :

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9 males and 6 females. First played in Dublin, by the
Pioneer Dramatic Club on December 26th, 1910. A very
young actress — Kathleen. Drago — ^made a notable hit in the
title role

*DuKEs (Ashley). Civil War. A Comedy in 4 Acts.

A clever play, with the Romeo and Juliet idea of the son
and daughter of two deadly enemies falling in love with
each other, and in the end getting their parents' blessing.
The father of the son is a stiffnecked old squire, represent-
ing feudal ideas ; and the father of the daughter is an old
Irish revolutionary who has played a part in risings all
over Europe. First played by the Incorporated Stage
Society at Aldwych Theatre, London, on Thursday, June
7th, 1910. Cast : 7 males and 4 females. The scene is
laid in England.

*Kt3arney (Peter). Tlie Call to Arms. A Historical
Drama in 4 short Scenes.

It deals with the career of Peter O'Neill Crowley, who died
for Ireland in the Fenian rising of 1867. Cast : 7 males and
3 females. Performed in Dublin by the New Ireland
Dramatic Society, October, 1910.

*Ryan (William Patrick). Tlie Wake of the People.
1847. Play in 4 short scenes.

Partly written in blank verse. Cast : 5 males and 1
female. Published by M. H. Gill and Son, Dublin. A
young man returns to Ireland during the famine time, to
find his mother dead, and the girl he loves dying, and all
the country-side around desolate and dreary with famine-
stricken people. A ghoulish wild poet, Rory, chants a
dirge over the country as he wanders through the deserted
villages and plains. The play gave me a " creepy " feel-
ing as I read. The author was born at Bansha, County
Tipperai'y, about 1865.

The Teacher from Fairyland. (An t-Oide as

Tir-na-nOg). A Bi-lingual Play.
Played at the Oireaohtas, 1910,, Rotunda, Dublin. The
play represents the conflict of the two systems of educa-
tion, the old and the new. The old sent Ireland into
forgetfulness. The new— which in reality is the older be-
cause it is the native system— restores to Ireland her senses
and her joys.

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Teeguson (Sir Samuel). The Naming of Ouchulain.
A Dramatic Scene.

Depicts the first great incident in the life of the mighty
hero. In it we are told how Selanta, a youth in fosterage
with Conor Mao Nessa, in his early youth strangled the
" ou," or greyhound, of the King's smith, Culaun, and how
the name Cuchulain was given him in remembrance of the
deed of prowess. Played by the Ulster Literary Theatre
in Belfast on March 9th, 1910. Cast : 10 males.

Deirdre. A Dramatic Poem.

Sir Samuel was born in Belfast, March 10th, 1810, and
died at Howth on August 9th, 1886.

'•'WoBTi-iiNGTON (E. K.). The Burden. Play in 1 Act.

The scene of this piece is laid in a public-house at the foot
of a bleak hill near the sea, and it tells the story of an
old fiddler who has heard fairy music and becomes
possessed of magical musical ability, which he says enables
him to do wonderful things. Three times only can the
old fellow play a magical tune, and at the third time of
his playing he dies. Some country folk scoff at the old
man's ability to do what he says, and goad him on to play
three times, with tragic result. Six male characters and
one female make up the cast. The play was first produced
by the Cork Dramatic Society on May 11th, 1910, and met
with success.

*Geegan (James). Teig Oorcoran's Courtship. A 1-
Act Comedy of the present day.

Produced by the New Ireland Dramatic Society in Dublin
on May 5th, 1910. The little piece possesses genuine
humour. The stratagems that a young man resorts to to
avoid marrying the girl he has no desire to forms the kernel
of the plot. It is in three scenes, with a oast of five males
and four females.

Williams (C. Morton). A Day in Dublin.
Not yet acted.

SiiAKESPEAEE (T. P.). The Creamery Clerk.
Not yet acted.

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Chonan (Dinal). Tlie Toy Part.
Not yet acted.

^^'McGloughlin (Alfred). " Morgan O'Friel." The
Fugitive. An Incident of 1690.

Scene iu the house of a "Williamite in County Coi'k, whose
sister is a Jacobite. A man comes in whom the owner
mistakes for a Williamite officer, but he afterwards pro-
tends to the lady, when he is in a tight fix, that he is
King James, and she effects his escape by the . window,
only to learn that the fugitive was none other than a
noted highwayman, and that his fellows have made off with
the best silver and best horses in her brother's stables.
First played at the Abbey on May 31st, 1910, by the
Students' Union of the Metropolitan School of Art. Cast :
8 men and 1 woman.

The Skull. A Farce in 1 Act.

A farmer's wife unearths a skull in her husband's fields,
and brings it home. On seeing it the farmer gets into a
state for fear, he might be suspected of the murder of a
missing neighbour. After many situations of comic terror,
the skull turns out to be that of a valuable monkey that
died in a travelling circus and happened to get buried iu
the fields, and the farmer gets rewarded instead of gaol
for finding it in the end. The scene is laid in a
farmer's kitchen in the outskirts of a small village iij. North
Donegal. Time, the present. A trifle not too skilfully
worked out. Played at the Abbey Theatre by the Leinster
Stage Society, Feb. 23rd, 1911. Cast : 3 males and 1
female.

•■"White (Barton). The Remedy. A 3- Act Farce.

A captain loves the seaside, and his wife doesn't, but finds
herself there all the same. She welcomes a couple of
adventurers to the house, and they soon succeed iu break-
ing up the home. They tell the captain that if he had any
serious trouble his wife's affection would come back to him;
till ultimately they get him to dispose of his home. He
enii'rusts them with the money to buy it back again, never
to see them more. On their departure the husband and
wife become reconciled. Court, London, May 5th, 1911.
The adventuress is an Irishwoman. Cast : 9 male and 5
fexnale characters.

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* Waters (C). Sheila's Dilemma. Comedietta in 1
Act.

The piece is crisp and original. Cast : 1 male and 4
females. Played at a Charity Matinee at Gaiety Theatre,
Dublin, January 12th, 1911.

Pearse (P. H.)-. A Passion Play. In 3 Acts. (Spoken
in Irish).

Act one depicted the Garden of Gethsemane; Act two, the
Court of Pilate; and Act three, the side of Calvary. This
latter scene, as depicted by the pupils of St. Enda's College
and of St. Ita's College, at the Abbey Theatre, on Friday,
April 7th, 1911, was the most profoundly impressive and
touching I ever beheld. Its very simplicity was its charm.

Gardiner (R.). My Jealous Partner, A 1-Act Sketch.
Not yet acted.

MacLoughlin (J.). The Mills of God. A 3-Act Play.
Not yet acted.

Montgomery (J.). The Alarm Clock.
Not yet acted.

The Plot. A Comedy in 2 Acts.

Time, the present day. The first act takes place in a sub-
urban barber's shop near Dublin; and. the second, in the
parlour of a dairyman's. Cast : 7 males and 2 females. First
played at Carriokmacross, by the Farney Playejs, on April
18th, 1911. Written by a member of the Society.

*Erving (St. John G.). Mixed Marriages. A Play in
4 Acts. (Maunsel & Co., Dublin.)

The action of the play takes place in the living room of a
small kitchen-house in a street midway between the Shan-
kill and Falls Road, Belfast, during a strike in which
Catholic and Orange workmen are alike concerned. John
Eainey, an Orangeman, is trying to keep the strikers from
rioting amongst themselves, until he discovers that his son
has become engaged to a Catholic girl. Then he loses his

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head and incites the men to quarrel, and the girl, the
innocent cause of it all, is killed in the riot. The scene is
laid in the present day. The play is a clever, topical " dis-
cussion," with some moments of real drama in it. Marie
O'Neill made a big hit in the splendidly-drawn character
of " Mrs. Eainey," a homely, sensible woman, brimful of
human nature. First played at the Abbey on Thursday,
March 30th, 1911. Cast : 4 males and 2 females.

The Magnaniraous Lover. A realistic Sketch of

humble Belfast life in 1 Act.

Accepted at the Abbey. Published by Maunsell and Co.,
Dublin.

The Eviction. A short Play.

Not yet acted.

* Vernon (H. M.), libretto by, and *Tours (Frank),
music by. Macarthy's Troubles. A Musical
Comedy Sketch in 1 Act.

Scene, Dodo-land,, an imaginary island in the South Seas.
The King of the Island has just died, and the law has it that
the first white man who lands within a specified time must
be proclaimed king. Failing this, the crown is to pass to
the Prime Minister. At the critical moment a shipwrecked
Irishman, Macarthy, turns up, much to the annoyance of
the Minister, who plots to murder him. The plot fails,
and Macarthy settles down as king, with a princess as
his bride, and lives happy ever after, as you and I may,
" as the story tellers have it." Shaun Glenville played
"Macarthy." Cast: 3 males and 2 females. Produced
on May 15th, 1911, at the Hippodrome, Portsmouth.

^Glenville (Mrs.). Kitty's Troubles. Comedy Sketch.

Produced at the Eotunda, Dublin, on Easter Monday,
April 17th, 1911, with the authoress — a well-known im-
personator of comedy characters in Irish plays — in the
title role. Cast : 2 males and 1 female.

^Burnett (Francis Hodgson) and Stanley (Frederick
A.). JudyO'Hara. Play.

Produced in America, 1911.

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*Teaele (Godfrey). The Waiting Game. A I- Act
Play (which appeared in Pearson's Magaziw,
April, 1911).

It was originally produced for stage-right purposes at the
Duke of York's Theatre, London. First public perform-
ance, September 4th, 1911, at London Pavilion, with the
author in the part of a Canadian mounted policeman, and
Miss Mary Malone in that of a young Irish girl new to tlie
rough ways of the West.

*Kehoe (P.). When Wexford Rose, etc., to '98.

Published by the Echo Printing and Publishing Company,
Ennisoorthy, 1911, with foreword by Rev. P. F. Kavanagh,
O.F.M. (the Historian of 1798). Period : Midsummer.
Locality : Near Oulart. Scene : A Cottage Interior.
After the rising a rebel seeks his mother's home
and soon the soldiers come to search the place. The
rebel makes his escape into another room, and his mother's
answers to the officer's queries not satisfying him, he is
about to arrest her. Her cries for help brings her son on
the scene and he is captured. The officer will let him off
if he informs on his comrades. This he refuses to do.
After a touching interview between mother and son, the
mother backs up her son's resolve. The officer is so

annoyed at this that he orders both mother and son to be
hanged, and the soldiers arc about carrying out his com-
mands when a party of rebels arrive, and amid a scene of
much excitement, rescue the condemned pair. The piece
is well written, interesting and dramatic. Cast 3 males
and 1 female. Played for the first time in Dublin at
Queen's, November 13, 1911.

Easter Fire on the Hill of Slane. An Anglo-Irish
Play.

Produced by the pupils of St. Munohin's College, Limerick,
on May 7th, 1911. 'The play deals with the introduction of
Christianity into Ireland.

*MagCaethy (Brian). Down in Kerry. An episode in
2 Acts.

The scene is laid in a cottage in Kerry, and the story it has
to tell in, a simple way is the saving of a young country
girl from ^he great white scourge through being sent to a

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Eanatorium in the nick of time. The play i? frankly a
propagandist one, yet it gives a charming picture of rural
life at the same time. Produced by amateurs at the Abbey
on Tuesday, February 28th, 1911. Cast: a males and 4
females.

*Stuart (Gerald Villiers). The Drums of Doom. Play
in 1 Act.

The action of the play takes place in a Western State of
America. The wife of a condemned man is expecting his
reprieve at any moment, but, alas! it comes not in the
endj and the man dies. Cast : 2 males and 1 female.
The part of the condemned man's wife — " Mrs. Jim Fitz-
gerald " — was played by Lady Tree at the Scala Theatre,
London, 1911.

The Doctor's Boy. Sketch.

Played at Rotunda, Dublin, on April 17th, 1911. Cast :
3 males and 2 females.

The Bailiff of Ballyf oyle ; or, Ireland in the Penal Days.
Drama.

Played by the Workmen's Club Dramatic Society at 41
York Street, on Wednesday, September 27th, 1911.

A Brand from the Burning. A Play in 1 Act.

Scene, the common room in Margaret Cesar's Inn, CaJ."rick-
maeross, in the year 1682. A rebel and the Cromwellian
soldiers play an important part in the plot. Cast : 4 males
and 2 females. Played, for the first time on any stage, by
the Farney Players at the Catholic Hall, Carrickmacross,
April 18th, 1911. Play written by a member of the
Society.

^'MuEKAv (Tom E.) and Baynes (Eustace), book and
lyrics by, and Ives (Malcolm C), music bv. The
Harem Doctor. A Musical Comedy in 3 Scenes.

The scenes take place in Market Place, Tunis, and Pasha's
Palace. " It concerns the adventures of a shipwrecked
Irish mariner — Felix Lucky — who, when disguised as a
French physician and appointed medical adviser and Grand
Vizier to the liypochoudricul Pasha, proscribes ' Scotch

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neat ' for his Highness and kisses for tho ladies of the
harem." First played at the Queen's Park Hippodrome,
Manchester, Monday, September 4th, 1911. Cast : 9 males
and 9 females.

*0'Shea (Patrick). Gliocas. A 1-Act Bi-lingua-1 Play.

Performed, for the first time on any stage, at the Kotunda,
Dublin, at the Oireachtas, on Saturday, August 5th, 1911.
It deals with the troubles of an Englishman, who has been
pitchforked into a position for which he is utterly Im-
Buited — ^that of Old Age Pension Officer in an Irish-
speaking district, where English is unknown. Eight
characters in oast. The author hails from Caherdaniel,
County Kerry.

*Baelow (Jane). At the Hawthorne Bush. A Dialogue.

Read by J. M. Kerrigan, of the Abbey Theatre Company,
at the " Original Night." National Literary Society,
Dublin, February 27th, 1911. Miss Barlow is the daughter
of the Rev. J. W. Barlow, Vice-Provost of Trinity College,
Dublin. She was born at Clontarf, County Dublin.

A Bunch of Lavender. A Comedy of Irish Life

in 2 Scenes.

Played at the Theatre of Ireland in their Hall, Hardwioko
Street, Dublin, December 18th, 1911. Cast : 3 males and
3 females. The scene is laid in a garden. Time : Early
in the Nineteenth Century. Though the play is weighted
with words, there is an old world charm about it. A proud
woman disowns her son for marrying beneatli him, and ho
dies abroad, and the girl he has wed also dies of a broken
heart. The grandfather of the latter comes to the lady's
garden to gather a few flowers to strew over the grave of
his grand-daughter and is ordered out of the place. He
then puts a bitter curse on the place, and years after it
falls on the young man who is engaged to the proud
woman's daughter, and tho play ends on tragic note. Frank
Walker made u notable success in the role of old Jlurtagh
Regan.

The Feis at Ancient Tara. A Historical pageant in
2 Acts.

Performed at Rotunda Gardens, Dublin, August, 1911.
Oireachtas Week. Produced by Fred Morrow.

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Day (Miss E.). Out of Deep Shadow. Play.
Not yet acted.

McLoEEN (John). The Soggarth Aroon.
Not yet acted.

HoGAN (Patrick). The Widow's Curse.
Not yet played.

•••MuLDooN (Joseph Malaohi). A Hospital Ward. A
Tragedy in 1 Act, founded on fact.

Scene, a ward in an American hospital. On the point of
death an Irish exile discovers that his nurse is the long
lost Eileen of his dreams. The little piece is a trifle
harrowing and over long drawn out. Cast : 3 males and 3
females. This piece was tried in the country before being
played at the Queen's, Dviblin, on Monday, September 4th,
1911 (matinee), by the Irish Theatre and National Stage
Company.

The West's Awake, National Drama in 3 Acts.

Produced by the Sligo Dramatic Company in January, 1911.
Revived at Queen's, Dublin, by the Irish Theatre and
National Stage Company, Monday, June 26th, 1911.
Period of play, 1798. An exciting melodrama of the
popular kind, each scone ending in a thrilling situation.
Cast : 11 males and 3 females.

•■■'MuLDOON (John and Joseph). For Ireland's Sake; or,
Under the Green Flag. A Romantic Irish Drama.
(Ponsonby). Is.

A Trinity Student. (1911). A Modern Comedy

in 5 Acts.

Therein is depicted the life of a Trinity student, whose
story, though humorous, is not without its pathos. The
scene of most of the comedy is laid in Dublin. To be pro-
duced by the Irish Theatre Company.

Around the World. Spectacular Entertainment in 15
Scenes, constituting pictures of various nations.

The final scene of part one represents Blarney Castle,
Ireland, and is full of sweet colleens and bhoys " with

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shillelaghs " — a stage Ireland of the most approved pattern.
First produced at JNew York Hippodrome, September 2nd,
1911.

*GuiNAN (John). The Cuckoo's Nest. A Comedy in Irish
Life in 3 Acts, with a well drawn character sketch
of a middle-aged man as chief figure in the cast.

Not yet acted. (October, 1911).

The Fairy Follower. A Play in I Act.

Published in the St. Patrick's Day No. of Weeldy Freeman,
1908, but not yet acted.

The Buckle Beggar. A Play in 1 Act. (1909).

Not yet acted nor printed. It is not unlikely thdt one of
Guinan's plays may be produced at the Abbey shortly.

■ Rustic Eivals. A 1-Act Comedy. (1905).

Published in a special St. Patrick's Day Number of the
Weekly Freeman, 1906, but never yet acted.

Darling (S. Grenville). The Forge. An Irish Play in
3 Acts.

The scene is laid in some thinly-populated district in the
County Limerick, about twenty miles from the town, in
the present day. An aged blacksmith disowns his only
daughter because he thinks she has gone wrong with a
gentleman, and even when they are married he still will
have nothing to say to her, and goes to the poorhouse
sooner than accept anything at her hands. Cast : 7 males
and 2 females. The old man is a very powerfully drawn
character. Not yet acted. (October, 1911).

*BiRMiNGHAM (George A.). Eleanor's Enterprise. A 3-
Act Comedy of Irish life.

The scene is laid in the West of Ireland, and its story tells
how Eleanor Maxwell, a Girton girl, tries to better the con-
dition of the country folk, and how the experiment ends in
failure. First produced by the Independent Theatre Com-
pany at the Gaiety, Dublin, December 11, 1911, with great
success. John Connolly and Helena Jloloney as Paudeen,

316 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

and Mrs. Finnegan, on whom "Eleanor's enterprise " falls,
won unstinted praise for their realistic character studies.
Cast : 7 males and 6 females. The Rev. J. O.
Hanney, Rector of Westport, puts forth his literary efforts
under the name of " Birmingham." He has written quite
a number of novels on Irish subjects. This is his first play.

Vaetan (Suseen) and Varian (John). Cuchulain:
Oisin the Hero. A Cycle of Plays. Crown 8vo.
Cloth. Is. Sealy, Bryers & Walker, Publishers.

Neither of those legendary plays have as yet been staged.

'■^GoRE-BooTii (Eva). Tlie Triumph of Maeve. A
Romance.

Cast in dramatic form. The main theme is the same as
that used in Mr. H. Pclissicr's cantata, Connla of the
Oolden Hair. (Published by Longmans, Green and Co.
7s. 6d.) 1906. Never acted.

The Buried Life of Deirdre. A Poetical Play.

Accepted by the Theatre of Ireland. (October, 1911). Not
yet acted.

*MiTCHELL (Susan L.), edited by. Leaguers and
Peelers; or, The Apple Cart. A Dramatic Saga
of the Dark Ages, in 2 Acts.

An amusing skit, written in verse to popular airs on up-to-
date Irish topics. Published in The Irish Review for
October, 1911. If produced at a Gaelic League entertain-
ment it would be likely to go right well.

*PuRCELL (R. J.) and *Doran (F. G.). Pat Maher's
Temptation. A Play in 3 Scenes. (1911}.

Locality : Tlie Townlaud of CuUamoro, a mountainous dis-
trict in Munster. Cast : 3 males and 2 females. It has
not yet been acted. It is naturally and effectively written,
and ought to play Mell. The dialogue rings true and never
halts. Two small farmers of the name of Maher live close
to each other — Pat and Peter by name. They each have a
son in the States. Pat is in low water and Peter in easy
circumstances. The latter often hears from his son, who
sends money regularly to the old folks at homo ; the former

IRISH PLAYS. 317

nevef from his. All the incidents in the play centre round
a drunken postman's mislaying a registered letter addressed
to "Mr. P. Maher " in Pat's house, and his neighbours
accusing him of stealing it, and when the letter is finally
opened it is found to be from Pat's son enclosing .£50 — a
sum that -willtide him over his diffieulties. The writers are
Civil Servants.

•■■Stephens (James). The Marriage of Julia Elizabeth.
A Dublin Comedy in 1 Act.

Playod for the first time on the opening night of the
Theatre of Ireland's new Hall, Hardwioke Street, on
November 17th, 1911. Cast : 2 males and 1 female.
Scene : The living room in a humble home. The piece is
very slight, but full of common-folk Dublin talk. The
parents of Julia Elizabeth chat over their supper about their
daughter, who has been away from home since morning,
and who seems to do very much as she pleases. A young
man comes on to propose for her hand and her parents are
pleased to accept him, when a letter arrives from the absent
one informing her parents that " she has got married to a
man who keeps a fried fish shop that morning." Dejection
follows this announcement, and the joung man departs
thanking them " for the very pleasant evening he has had."
Stephens, ivho wrote this piece, is a poet and storyteller of
talent.

•^Kelly (Paddy). The West Wind. A Playlet in 2
Scenes.

Cast : 3 males and X female. Scene : Kitchen in a cottage.
This little piece is scarcely more than a chat between an
old oouple and a wanderer, who drops in and tells about
people he met on his wanderings and of the romance of his
early life. He recalls "The Tramp " in Synge's In the
Shadow of the Glen, in that he has a grah .for " poetry
talk." Published in Christmas Number of Irish Indepen-
dent, December 2, 1911.

*ScoTT (Miss Molly F.). Charity. A Play in 1 Act.

Scene : A farm house. The central idea is that of a
peasant family who have slaved to the bone to put a son
in the church, and discovers after his death that his money,
which might have set them on their feet, has been willed

31 g GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

to " charity." Cast : 5 males and 4 females. First pro-
duced at Grand Opera House, Belfast, by the Ulster Lite-
rary Theatre, on December 4, 1911. The author is a
native of Waterford and well known in musical and
dramatic circles.

*Paul (William). The Jerrybuilders. A2'-ActPlay.

It is a realistic picture of a shop girl's fear of poverty and
dulness, and her desire of gaiety and leisure driving her
into a loveless marriage which ends tragically. The scene
opens in "Miss Begg's First Floor Front." Cast: 5
males and 5 females. First played at Grand Opera House,
Belfast, by the Ulster Literary Theatre, on Tuesday, Dec. 5,
1911.

•••Neil (J. Crawford). On the Telegraph Pole. A short
Sketch.

The writer of this little. piece shows us two men working
on a pole above the housetops and commenting on what is
going on in the street below : A poet in an attic and a
servant girl from a top window join in the conversa-
tion. The Theatre of Ireland is likely to produce it shortly.
Neil revised The Widow Dempsey's Funeral for stage
representation at the Theatre of Ireland, December, 1911.

*La Brandt (Joseph). Through Death Valley; or,
The Mormon Peril. A Melodrama in 4 Acts.

An American drama produced in London for the first time
at The Shakespeare, Clapham, on December 11, 19,11. The
scene is laid at Utah, and the chief villain is a Mormon
elder, who, among other deeds of dreadful note, performs
or procures several murders, a good deal of mine-robbing,
a cruel case of heiress abduction, and the attempted anni-
hilation of the hero by having him bound to a big tree with
a rattlesnake fastened near his ear. The villain also, and
luider cover of a flag of truce, seeks to slay all opposers in
one batch, but in this, as in other attempts, he is foiled
by the hero, and virtue is triumphant in the end. There
is a comic Irish character, named Pat Cahill, in the east,
which comprises of 12 males and 4 females. This drama
is well known in U.S.A.

Peabse (M. B.). The Good People. A Comedy in 1
Act.

First played by the Leinster Stage Society at the Abbey
on Tuesday, December 26, 1911. It deals, as its title sug-

IRISH PLAYS. 319

gests, with Irish fairy lore. The author calls it " A plea
for an ancient people." Cagt : 1 male and 3 females. The
scene is laid in a cottage in a fishing village near Dublin.
Mary Fitzgerald played well as Honor, an old country

Pat Among the Fairies ; or, The Crock of Gold. An
Extravaganza.

Played at Rotunda, Dublin, during Christmas week, 1911.
Mrs. Glenville in the role of Molly, and Herbert Glenville
as Pat. How Pat finds himself among leprecauns, fairies,
gnomes, etc., and the dialogue which ensues makes excel-
lent fun.

Patterson (W. M.)., M.R..I.A. St. Patrick's Life. A
Pageant.

The pageant was illustrative of incidents in the life of the
saint. It took place at Ulster Hall, Belfast, early in
January, 1912. The central scene was that in which the
saint appeared at the Court of Tara. Produced under the
direction of Messrs. Morrow. This pageant recalls the fact
that the earliest attempt at drama in the Irish language
dealt with the preaching of Patrick at Tara, as shown in a
play by the late Father O'Growney, which was staged at
Letterkenny Aonach in November, 1898.

320 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON IRELAND.

ADDENDA.

Chiefly a few plays published in U.S.A., the dates of which
have not been ascertained.

Carleton (John L.). More Sinned Against Than
Sinning. Irish Drama in a Prologue and 3 Acts.

An interesting drama, interspersed with much humour.
Plays one hour and three-quarters. Scenes — a reception
room, a prison coll, and two landscapes. Eleven male
characters. (Published in America by the Dramatic Pub-
lishing Company, Chicago, U.S.A.').

• Coom-na-Goppel. Drama in 5 Acts.

A strong, patriotic Irish play, full of action and excitement
of the conventional kind. Plays about 2 hours and a-half.
Four interior scenes and one exterior. Fourteen male
characters. (Published in America, 1911.)

Irishman's Mano3uvre. Comedy in 2 Acts. (Pub-
lished by S. French, Ltd.).

Davidson (Anthony). The Fair Hibernian. Tragedy.

In the Days of the Union. Play. (Published anonj^-
mously a few years ago).

It deals with the selling of the Irish Parliament.

Burke, Jun. (James). Shannon Boys. Eomantic
Irish Drama in 3 Acts.

A strong play, with striking characterisation, and affords
opportunity for the introduction of Irish melodies, etc.
Ten male and four female characters. Plays two hours.
Time, present day. (Published in America.)

Sedgwick (John L.). Molly Moriarty. Irish Musical
Sketch in 1 Act.

A pretty little piece, with pleasing music. Plays ten
minutes. Peasant costume. One male and one female.
(Published in America.)

IRISH PLAYS. 321

Hamilton (C. J.). Four-Leaved Shamrock. Irish
Comedy in 3 Acts.

A bright, entertaining comedy. Characters, three male
and four female. Time of performance, one hour and
a-half. Three interior scenes. (Published in America.)

Rickey (Sam) and Barney (Master). Rehearsed; or,
Barry's Old Man. Irish Farce in 2 Scenes.

An amusing piece, shewing the mishaps of a couple of
country folk who made an appearance during the rehearsal.
Costumes, modern and theatrical; four male and two female
characters. Time, twenty minutes. (Published in
America.)

Wilton (M. J.). Mickey Free. Original Irish Sketch
in 1 Scene.

A lively, taking piece, with five characters, and a plain
room for scene. Takes twenty minutes to play. (Pub-
lished in America.)

Xf.wton (Henry I.) and Hoffman (A. S.). Timothy
Ryan's Return.

Comedy sketch for two male characters. Can be played
in any scene. A good piece for two Irish comedians.
(Published in America.)

AFacarthy (Harry). Barney's Courtship: or. ^Mollic
Dear. ^Musical Interlude in 1 Act.

A bright, clever little piece for one male and one female
character; peasant costume. Time, thirty minutes. (Pub-
lished in America.)

Cunningham (Dr. P. T.). Robert Emmet. Play in
5 Acts.

Produced at the Olympic, St. Louis, U.S.A. The play
opens in Paris, where members of the United Irishmen
plead with Napoleon and Talleyrand for the succour of
Ireland; Act 2 introduces Michael Dwyer, the Wicklow
hero, and Malachy Duggan, the informer; the 3rd, the

322 GUIDE TO BOOKS ON lEBLAND.

home of Anne Devlin, the heroine, who refused to betray
Emmet; the 4th, Emmet's last interview with Sarah
Curran, his betrayal, arrest, and trial, and the speech
from the dock; Act 5th, Kilmainham Jail, the execution
and apothesis of Emmet.

O'BoYLAN (B. M.). The Rebels; or, The Irish Insur-
gent Chiefs of 1803. An Historical Drama in 5
Acts, with Robert Emmet, ilichael Uwyer, etc.,
in the " Dramatis Personse." 12 male and 4
female characters. (The Salesian Publishing Co.,
Newark, Ohio).

The author, in his preface, writes: — "The drama was
written with the view to putting a true and clean picture
of Irish life on the stage. I have always held in abhorrence
the thing known as the stage Irishman, and I feel confident
that this play will be received with applause by those who
offer no excuse for, but rejoice in being sprung from, the
Irish race."

From the Catalogue of P. J. Kenedy & Co., New York.

Tim Carthy's Trial ; or, Whistling at Landlords.

3 Acts. 20 characters. $.15.

The Green Shores of Erin. Musical Sketch in 1

Short Act. Cast : 1 male and 1 female. $.26.

Princess of Meath. A Costume Play. 12 char-
acters.

O'Neal the Great. Drama in 3 Acts. (Published bv
S. French, Ltd.).

*Clabkb (Joseph I. C). Robert Emmet. A Tragedy
of Irish History. * •'

Clarke was born in Kingstown, Dublin, July 31 1846 In
1868 he went to America, where he had a distinguished
career as a journalist. On March 17, 1898, The Sun New
lork, ^published a poem of his, entitled " The Fighting
Bace, that has won lasting popularity for its author since

IRISH PLAXS. . 323

Lystee (Frederick). The Irish Christening. An ab-
surdity in 1 Act in Prose. London. 1875.

My Irish Molly. An Irish Musical Play.

Performed at the halls by Mr. and Mrs. Prank Stuart's Co.
The scene is laid in a wild country spot in Ireland, and the
life of the village and the feast celebrations all tend to
make the piece attractive and bright. Fred. L. Sydney as
Dennis, " a true born Irish boy,' and Winifred Stuart as
Molly, were the life of the play. This piece has been ■
before the public for some years.

Royal (Edwin Milton). The Snare. A Drama of
sordid life, with scene laid in America. (1912).

The chief character is that of the daughter of an Irish
saloon keeper, whose worthless husband deserts her and his
three children, and she in turn picks up with a married
man and becomes his mistress. He gets into trouble with
his wife and plans to leave the saloon keeper's daughter.
When the latter gets her divorce she asks the man to marry
her, but he refuses — ^he intends going oif with another
woman when he is free. On his refusal she stabs him to
death. The crime is fixed up, and there is a reconcilia-
tion between the woman and her divorced husband. Mar-
garet Anglin, the American actress, who was oast for the-
role of the adulterous Irish woman, refused to play the
part, and severed her connection with Liebler & Co. over
it. What Abbey actress ever refused to drag Irish woman-
kind through the mire?

McHuGH (Martin J.). The Half-Sir. A Play in 3
Acts.

The author is a well-known writer of short stories for the
periodical press. For some years past he has resided in
Clare, and has written -many stories with that county as
background. He hopes to see his play acted soon.

Grattan (H. p.). (1808-1889). The Omadhaim. An
Irish Drama.

Played at the old Queen's Theatre in Long Acre, London,
in 1877, -with Henrietta Hodson in the part of the half-

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witted boy, which gave the name to the play. This actress
married Henry Laboucherc, the editor of Truth, who died
on January 16, 1912. He ran the Queen's the time she
starred there. The dramatist's real name was Plunkett.
He was a native of Dublin.

Gore-Booth (Eva). Unseen Kings. A Verse Pla.y,
with music for the lyrics by Professor Max Meyer.

First played at Abbey by the Independent Theatre Com-
pany on January 25, 1912.

ilARTYN (Edward). Grangecolman. A Domestic
Drama in 3 Acts.

Its iinport is tragic. First played at Abbey by the Indepen-
dent Theatre Company on January 25, 1912.

INDEXES.

List o{ Indexes.

I. — Index to General Collections and Selections (by author
and title)

II. — Index to Prose Literature (by author's name)
III. — Index to Poetry (by author's name

IV. — Index to Music (by author's name)

IV.A — Supplement to Index to Music
V. — Index to Plays (by title of play)
VI. — Index to Plays (by author's name)

A'll. — Index to Plays (by subject)

. 326
. 327
. 332
. 335
. 341
. 342
. 359
. 367

INDEX I.— GlENEKAL COLLECTIONS AND

SELECTIONS.

Cabinet of Irish Literature (ed.
Mrs. Hinkson)

Casket of Irish Pearls (ed.
f' MacMahon)

Dialect Recitations (ed.Dick) . .

Dick (Wm. B.) — Irish Dialect
Recitations . .

FOBD (Robekt)— Popular Irish

Readings
Gill and Sons — Irish Reciter

Humour of Ireland (ed.
O'Donoghue)

Irish Literature (ed. McCarthy)

Jennhstqs (Be\'. J. A.) — Read-
ings from Irish Authors

KiRTON (J. W.)— The Standard
Irish Reciter . .

Irish

McCarthy (Jusiin
Literature

-Cas-

MacMauon (Thornton)-
ket of Irish Pearls . .

Murray (J. O'Kane)- — Prose
and Poetry of Ireland

O'DONOGHTTE D. J.— The Hu-
mour of Ireland

O'Kelly (J. J.)— Gill's Irish
Reciter . . . . . . 4

Pearson's Irish Reciter and
Reader . . . . . . 5

Prose and Poetry of Ireland
(ed. O'Kane Murray) . . 3

Readings, Popular Irish (ed.

Ford) . . . . 4

„ Irish (ed. Sullivan) 4

„ from Irish Authors

(ed. Jennings) . . 4

Reciter, Irish (ed. O'Kelly) . . 4

„ The Standard Irish

(ed. Kirton) . . 5

„ and Reader, Irish

(Pearson's) . . 5

Sullivan (A. M., etc.) — Irish
Readings . . . . . . 4

Tynan (Mrs. Katharine Ty-
nan Hinkson) — Cabinet of
Irish Literature . . . . 2

Ward, Lock, and Co.'s Stan-
dard . rish Reciter (ed. Kir-
ton) . . . . . . . . 5

INDEX II.— PHOSE LITBRATUEE.

Abraham (G. W.)-

♦Essays . . . . . . 12

A. E. {see RtrssELL).
Allingham (William).

♦Varieties iu Prose . . . . Ifl

Armstbons (E. J.).

♦Essays and Sketches . . 13
Arnold (Matthew).

On the Study of Celtic
Literature . . . . 36

♦Irish Essays and Others . . 14
Atkinson (Sarah).

Essays 17

B.

Baker (D. E.).

Biographia Dramatioa . . 47
BicKLBY (Francis).

J. M. Synge and the Irish
Dramatic Movement . . 52
Biographical Dictionaries 45
Bobsa (Mario).

The English Stage of To-day 50
Burke (Edmund).

Speeches . . . . . . 26

♦On Irish Affairs . . . . 14

♦Collected Works . . . . 7

Burke (Rev. Thomas, O.P.).

♦Lectures and Sermons . . 13
Bureowbs (Eeter).

Speeches . . . . . . 30

Butler (Lieut. -General Sir
William).

The Light of the West . . 22

0.

Cahill (Rev. D. W.).

♦Works
Oalceopt (J. W.)-

A Defence of the Stage
Campbell (Joseph).

Mearing Stones
" Chanel," i.e., A. E. Clery.
Chetvvood.

General History of Stage . .
Clery (Arthur E., B.L.,
" Chanel ").

The Idea of a Nation
Crokee (J. W.).

Familiar Epistles
CuLLEN" (Cardinal).

♦Writings
CuREAN (John Philpot).

Cusack (M. p.).

The Speeches and Public
Letter of the Liberator . .

D.

Daunt (W. J. O'Neill).

♦Essays on Ireland . .
Davis (Thomas).

♦Prose Writings of . .

♦The Voice of the Nation . .
D'Esteebe-Keeling (Elsa).

♦In Thoughtland and Dream-
land
Dick (Wm. B.).

Irish Dialect Recitations . .

48

46

21

47

27

30

16

11
12

15

328

INDEX TO PROSE LITERATURE.

DoBAN (Dr. J.).

Their Majesties' Servants . . 49
DuiTY (SiK Charles Gavan).

The Revival of Irish Litera-
ture . . . . . . 36

DuvATj (Louis).

Les Pontes de Cour Irlandais 46

E.

" Eglinton (John)," i.e., W.
K. Magee.
Pebbles from a Brook . . 18
Bards and Saints . . . . 19

Eloquence.

The Household Book of Irish
Eloquence ' . . . . 34

Fahy (F. a.) and O'Donogbue
(D. J.).

Ireland in London . . . . 49

Falklneb (C. Litton).

Essays Relating to Ireland . . 23
FiNLAY (J.).

Irish Eloquence . . . . 34

Miscellanies . . . . . . 51

Flanneky (Thos.).

For the Tongue of the Gael . . 18
Flood (Henky-).

Speeches . . . . . . 26

Flynn (J. W. ).

Random Recollections, etc. 49

G.

Gaskin (J. J.).

Carlisle (Earl of), The Vice-
regal Speeches and Ad-
dresses . . . . . . 32

Genest (Rev. J.).

The English Stage . .
Gilbert (Sir J.).

History of Dublin . . . . 49

Giles (Henry).

♦Lectures and Essays on
Irish and Other Subjects . . 11
Gladstone (W. E.).

Speeches . . . . . . 32

GoDDARD (Ethel).

Dreams for Ireland . . 20

Gbattan (Henry).

Speeches . . . . . . 28

Gregory (Lady).

Poets and Dreamers . . 40

Ideals in Ireland . . . . 18

GwYNN (Stephen).

Charlotte Grace O'Brien and
her Writings . . . . 23

To-day and To-morrow in I. 25

H.

Halpine (Charles Graham).

Baked Meats of the Funeral 69
Hardy (Philip Dixon).

Picnics from the Dublin
Penny Journal . . . . 39

Harris (Walter).

See Sir James Ware, Writers
of Ireland. 45

Healy (Most Rev. Dr.).

Papers and Addresses . . 21
Irish Essays . . . . . . 22

Hebbison (David).

■See McMeekin, ed. of his
Works.
Hitchcock (Robert).

Historical View of Irish Stage 47
Houston (W. M. C). -See

Desmond Mountjoy.
Howard (Alfred).

Beauties of Grattan, Sheri-
dan, Burke . . . . 35

Howe (P. P.).

The Repertory Theatre . . 51
Hughes (Rev. S. C).

Pre- Victorian Drama in
Dublin 49

INDEX TO PROSE LITERATURE.

329

Hull (Eleanok).

A Text-book of Irish Litera-
ture 38

Hyde (Douglas).

Story of Early Gaelic Lit. . . 38
Literary History of Ireland . . 38
On the Necessity for De-An-
glicising Ireland . . . . 36

J.

Johnson (Lionel).

20

Jones (F. E.).

Thoughts on Familiar Epis-
tles . . . . . . 47

Joyce (P. W.) •

The Wonders of 1 24

JUBAINVILLB (H. D'AHBOIS DE).

Cours de Litt6rature Celtique
etc 36

K.

Kelly (J. J.) and O'Bybne

Irish Varieties . . . . 59

Kettle (Peof. T. M.).

The Day's Burden . . . . 24

Kilkenny Theateioals. 48

KlKKMAN (C. J.).

Charles Macklin . . . . 52

Kbans (H. S.).

W. B. Yeats and the Irish
-Literary Revival . . . . 44

L. .

Lalok (James Fintan).

Writings of . . . . . . 17

Lecky (W. E. H.).

Historical and Political
Essays . . . . . . 21

Levey (E. M. ) and O'Roukke.

Theatre Royal . . . . 48

Lynd (Robebt).

Irish and English Portraits

I and Impressions . . . . 21

M.

Mac.

Character Sketches . . 23

McCakthy (D. F.).

The Poets and Dramatists
of Ireland . . . . . . 42

McGee (T. D'Abcy).

Irish Writers of the Seven-
teenth Century . . . . 43
McLean (Magnus).

The Literature of the Celts . . 39
" MacLeod (Fiona)," i.e., Wil-
liam Shaep.

Collected Works . . . . 10

♦Collected Works, v. iv. . . 56

The Winged Destiny . . 41

MacMahon (T.).

The Casket of Irish Pearls . . 3
McMeekin (Rev. David).

♦Works of David Herbison . . 8
MacNeill (De. Nigel).

The Literature of the High-
landers . . . . . . 39

Mageb (William K.). See.

" Eglinton (John)."
Maginn (William).

♦Miscellanies . . . . . . 9

Maie (G. H.).

English Literature . . . . 51

Mangan (James Claeanoe).

*The Prose Works of . . 15

♦Essays . . . . . . 14

Meagheb (T. F.).

Speeches . . . . . . 31

Molloy (J. Fitzqeeald).

The Romance of tlie Irish
Stage . . . . . . 50

Montague (C. E.).

Dramatic Values . . . . 51

MooEE (Geoege).

Ave . . . . . . . . 51

MoKAN (Caedinal).

♦Occasional Papers . . . . 16

330

INDEX TO PROSE LITERATURE.

" MoTJNTJOY (Desmond)," i.e.,
W. M. Chapman Hous-
ton.
A Creel of Peat . . . . 25

MuKRAY (John O'Kane).
The Prose and Poetry of
Ireland . . . • • ■ 3

N.

NuTT (Alfbed).

Celtic and Mediaeval Ro-
mance, etc.

O.

O'Brien (William).

*Irish Ideas . .
O'CoNNBLL (Daniel).

Speeches
O'DONNELL (F. H.).

The Stage Irishman
O'DONOGHUE (D. J.).

The Poets of Ireland

The Humour of Ireland
O'Grady (Standish).

Early Bardic Literature of
Ireland
O'Hagan (Lord).

The Poetry of Sir Samuel
Ferguson . .

Speeches

*Occasional Papers and Ad-
dresses
O'Leary (John).

What Irishmen Should

Read ; What Irishmen

Should Feel

O'Neill (James J.).

Irish Theatrical History
O'Reilly (Edward).

Irish Writers
O'Reilly (John Boyle).

Speeches
O 'Sullivan's (Rev. Saml.)

""Remains

40

17

29

50

42

36

43
32

15

56

50

45

33

P.

Parky (B. A.).

Charles MaokUn . . . . 52

Parnell (Chables Stewart).

Speeches {not piiblished)
Pascoe (C. E.).

Our Actors and Actresses . . 52
Phelan's (Rev. Dr. W.).

*Remains . . . . . . 7

Phillips (Charles).

Speeches in Ireland and
England . . . . . . 31

Specimens of Irish Eloquence 34
Plunket (The Hon. David).

The Life, Letters, and
Speeches of Lord Plunket 28
Plunket (Lord).

Speeches . . . . . . 28

Plunkett (Horace).

Noblesse Oblige . . . . 58

R.

Redmond (John E., M.P.).
Historical and Political Ad-
dresses, 1883-1897 .. 33

RiDGWAY (W.).

The Date of the First Shaping
of the Cuchulain Saga . . 40

ROISTE (LlAM de).

A Message to the Man . . 58
RooNBY (William).

The Prose Works of . . 24

Russell (George W.),"A. E."

Some Irish Essays . . . . 20

Ryan (W. P.).

The Irish Literary Revival. . 43

S.

'"Sharp (William). See "Fiona

MacLeod."
Senior (William Nassan).
"■Journals, Conversations and
Essays . . . . . . 13

INDEX TO PEOSE LITERATURE.

Shaw (JtroGE).

Occasional Papers . . . . 25

Shaw (Geobgb Bkbnard).

John Bull's Other Island . . 58
Shea (P.).

Vindication of J. Sheridan 46
Sheehan (Canon P. A.)-

The Intellectuals . . . . 57

Early Essays and Lectures 20
Shell (Richard Lalob).

Speeches . . . . . . 31

♦Sketches, Legal and Poli-
tical 12

Shebidak (Richard Bbinslby).

♦Speeches 27

Works 9

Shebidan (Thomas).

Mr. S.'s Address to the Town 47

SlOEBSON (GeOBGE).

On Irish Literature . . 36

SlIiliABD (ROBEET M.).

Barry Sullivan . . . . 52

Smith (John).

Irish Diamonds . . . . 57

Squiee (Chables).

Mythology of British Islands 38
Stage, The. . . . . 46 sq.

Stevenson (John).

Pat McCarty, Farmer of An-
trim 57

Sullivan (T.D., A. M. and
B. D.).

Speeches from the Dock .,. 35
Sullivan (A. M.).

Speeches and Addresses . . 33
Syngb (J. M.).

♦Works 10

T.

Tanneb (Thomas).

Bibliotheca Brittanico-Hi-
bernica . . . . . . 45

Theatre . . . . . . 46sqq.

U.

UssHEE (James, D.D.).
♦The Whole Works

VlOTOB.

A History of the Irish Stage

(1730-61) 49

ViOTOEY (Louis H.).

Essays for Ireland . . . . 20

♦ Voice of the Nation, The . . 12

W

Walkeb (Joseph Cooper).

Historical Memoirs of the
Irish Bards (see under
Music)

Essay on the Origin of Ro-
mantic Fabling in Ireland
Wallace; (Lesteb).

Memoirs of Fifty Years
Ware (Sib James).

Writers of Ireland . .
Webb (Alpeed).

Thoughts in Retirement
Whiteside (Chief Justice)

Essays and Lectures
Wilson (C. H.).

The Beauties of Edmund
Burke
Wilson (]\Irs. C. Baeon).

Our Actresses
Winteb (W.).

Life of John Brougham

Yeats (W. B.).

John M. Synge and the Ire-
land of his Time . .
A Book of Images . .
♦Collected Works . .
Discoveries . .
Ideas of Good and Evil

INDEX III.— POETEY.

A.

A. E. [see G. W. Russell)
Allingham (William)
Abohee (Bko. William)
Abmstkong (G. p. Savage)

Barlow (Jane)
Bakey (M. J.) . .
Barter ( J. )
Boyd (Thomas)
Brooke (Chaelotte)
Brooke (Stopford A. )
Brown (Mary J.)

Byrne (W.
Daea "

' William

91
73
92

94
62
60
105
60
70
71

109

Callanan (Jeremiah Joseph
Carbery (Ethna)
Casey (John Keegan). "Leo'
Chesson (Mrs. )
Clarke (Joseph I. C.)
Collins (Charles McCarthy
Collins (William)
CoLUM (Padeaic)
Connolly (Daniel) . .
CooKE (John) . .
COERY (T. C. S. )
Cousins (James H. ) . .
Cox (Eleanor R.)
Croker (Thomas Ckofton

" CaiREADOIR "

8.3
96
79

100
60

1 00

104
07
72
04
89

110
61

109

D.

Davis (Francis)
Davis (Thomas)
De Vere (Sir Aubrey)
De Vere (Aubrey T.)

.. 80
.. 77
.. 84
81, 84,
85,87

Deummond (Rev. W. Hamil-
ton) . . . . . . . . 63

Duffy (Charles Gavan) . . 62

E.

Ellis (Hercules) . . . . 63

Emerald Wreath, The . . . . 66

" Eva " {see Kelly). .

Eyes of Youth 72

F.

Fahy (F. a.) 83

Fawcett (W. J.) . . ..110

Ferguson (Sir Samuel) . . 80
Flower (Robin) .. ..110

Furlong (Alice) . . . . 108

G.

Gallway (Thomas) . . . . 93

Garvey (Maura) . . . . 110

Gilbert (Lady) . . . . 107

Gill and Sons — Song-books . . 74

Gore-Booth (Eva) . . . . 90
Graves (Alfred Perceval) 65, 96

Griffin (Gerald) . . . . 82

GwYNN (Stephen) . . . . Si

INDEX TO POETRT.

333

H.

Haediman (James) . . . . 60

Hayes (Edward) . . . . 64
HiNKSON (Mrs.), (see Katha-

KiNE Tynan.)

HiNKSoN (H. A.) . . . . 68

Hopper (Norah) . . . . 103

HuTTON (Mary A. ) . . . . 84

Hyde (Douglas) . . . . 71

I.

Irwin (Thomas Catjlfield) 83

J.
Johnson (Lionel) . . . . 83

Johnston (James Nioholl) . . 100
Johnston (William) . . . . 72

Joyce (Robert Dwyeb) 81, 88
Joyce (James A. )

K.

Kavanagh (Rose) . . . . 109

Keegan (John) . . . . 78

Kelly (Eleanor F.) . . . . 110

Kelly (R. J.) 71

Kelly (Mary). " Eva," Mrs.

Kevin Izod O'Doherty) . . 77
Kenedy and Co.'s Irish Song-
books . . . . . . 67, 74

Keohler (Thomas) . . . . 106

Lageniensis (see O'Hanlon).

Langbbidge (Canon) . . . . 109

Lanyon (Helen) . . . . 94

Labminib (William) . . . . 87

Lawless (Emily) . . 81

Lb Fanu (Shbeidan) . . 82

" Leo " (see Casey) . . . . 97
Leslie (Shane)

Longfellow (Henry W. ) . . 65

Lover (Samttel) , . 64, 98

M.

M'Call (P. J.) .. ..95
McCarthy (Denis Florence)62, 78

McDonnell (Randal) . . 109

MoGeb (T. Dargy) . . . . 78

McIlwaine (Rev. W. ) . . 65

McCarthy (D. A.) .. ..110

MacCathmaoil (Seosamh) . . 104

MacDermott (Martin) . . 69

MacDonagh (Thomas) . . 97

MacManus (Anna) . . . . 96

MaoManus (SEtnUAS) . . . . 93

Madden (Dr. R. R.) . . . . 67

" Maglone (Barney) " ..80
Mahony (Francis Sylvester 98
Mangan (James Clarence) 63, 82

Meyeb (Ktjno) . . . . 71

MiLLiGAN (Alice) . . . . 90

Mitchell (Susan) . . . . 99

Montgomeey (H. R. ) . . . . 62

Moore (Thomas) . . 76, 98

" Mountjoy (Desmond) .. 110

Mtjlholland (Rosa) . . . . 107

N.

Needham (M. p.)

93

O.

O'DoNNELL (Frank Hugh) . . 109

O'DoNNELL (John Francis). . 80

O'Hanlon (Canon John), 93

O'HiGGiNS (Brian) . . . . 95

O'Leaky (Ellen) . . . . 79

" O'Neill" ("Moiea ") .. 93

O'Neill (William) . . . . 81

Orange Songs and Poems . . 73
O'Reilly (John Boyle) 68, 99

" O'SuLLivAN (Seumas) " . . 103

O'SuLLivAN (Denis) . . . . 65

334

INDEX TO POETRY.

P.

Pan-Celtic Society

Paul (W. J.)

Probyn (May) . .
" Peout (Father)." (See Ma-
hony).

R.

ROLLESTON (T. W.)

RoLLESTON (T. W. ) ed.
RooNEY (William)
Russell (Rev. M., S.J.)
Russell (G.W.), "A. E." 70,
Ruttledge (A. K.) . .

69
109

84
07
96
108
102
94

S.

Sarqant (Alice) . . . . 88

Savage (John) . . . . 99

Sharp (Eliza and William) . . 69

Sheehan (Canon) . . . . 88

Shoesa (May) . . . . . . 79

SiGERSON (Dora) . . . . 103

SiGEESON (George) . . 64, 70

' "Slieve Maegy" (see O'Neill)

Spaeling (H. Halliday) . . 66
" Speranza "(«ee Wilde.)

Spirit of the Nation . . . . 61

Stacpoole (H. de Veee) . . 109
Staekey (James). (See Seu-

MAS O'SULLIVAN).

Stephens (James) . . . . 105
Stott (Thomas) . . . . 60
Stritch (A. R,.) .. ..67
Sullivan (T. D.) . . 66, 72 79
Synge (J. M.) 105

Thomson (J. G.) . . .. HO

Todhuntee (John) . . 85, 87

Trench (Herbert) . . . . 90

Tynan (Katharine) . . 68, 106

Varian (Ralph) . . . . 64

W.

Walsh (Edward) . . 62, 63

Weekes (Charles) . . . . 105

Welsh (Chaelbs) . . . . 70
Wilde (Lady), " Speranza " 78
Williams (Alfred M.) . . 65

Williams (Richard Dalton) 77
Wilson (R. A. ). (See Maglone)

■Y.

Yeats (W. B.) .. 68,101

Young (Ella) . . . . 105

Young (Robert) . . . . 73

Young (Rev. Dr.) . . . . 60

* INDEX IV.— MUSIC.

A.

Ana).

Selection of Airs . . 113, 138
Albxandeb (I.).

Flowers of the Emerald Isle
(London and Dublin) . . 120
Apollo Club Leaflets . . . . 152

Akmstkong (Robbkt Bbuce).
Musical Instruments (2 vols.) 155,

156
B.

Bayley and Ferg-nson^s Cata-
logues . . . . . . 150

Bbbthovbn.

Irish Melodies. Irish Sym-
phony (the 7th) . . 130, 141

Bebuoz (Hectob) . . . . 142

BOCHSA (R. N. C. ).

Reliqueslrlandaises (3bookB) 145

Bbady (Sib P.).

Songs 149

Browne and Nolan (Messrs.),
publish —
" Choruses for Choral Classes
and School Choirs " . . 150

Bbysson (J.).

Fifty Fa.vourite Irish Airs. . 114

Bukting (Edwabd).

First Collection, 1796 . . 114
Second Collection . . . . 114

Third Collection — Ancient

Music of Ireland . . . . 114

The Ancient Music of Ire-
land (Hodges, Figgis) .. 115

Butu!B (O'Bbien).

Muirgeis — Irish Opera . . 145

C.

Cailcott (W. Hutohins).

Irish Melodies .. ..123

Camieron and Fergttson.

Musical Publications . . 149

Cabolan's Cou^ction . . 113

Chappell and Go.'s Catalogue . . 150
Clandiixon.

An l,OTiTi-ouft . . . . . . 136

CiiiNTOisr.

1. Two Hundred Irish Melodies

for the Flute . . . . 120

2. Gems of Ireland . . . . 120
CoLLisoN (W. A. Houston).

A Kerry Courting . . . . 145

The Game of Chess (Cantata) 144

Samhain (Cantata) . . . . 144

CONBAN (M.).

National Music of Ireland . . 123
Cooke (B.).

Selection of Irish Airs . . 114
Counsel (Edwaed).

Melodies of Erin . . . . 126

Cramer, Wood and Co.'s Musi-
cal Publications . . 149
Cbawfobd (Mrs. Julia).

Irish Songs Set to Music by
F. Nicholls Crouch . . 120

Cbosby (B.).

Irish Musical Repository . . 117
Cbotoh (Wm.).

Specimens, of Various Styles
of Music . . . . ... 116

Cbouch (F. W. Nicholls), and
see CEAwroED.

Songs of Erin , , . . . . 121

•See also Supplement on p. 341.

336

INDEX TO MUSIC.

Ceowest (F. J.)-

The Music Story Series
Curwen's Catalogue . .

152,

156
151
153

D.

Davidson.

Irish Melodies Musical Mir-

acles . .

125

E.

Egan (Charles).

A Selection of National

Lyrics
Erin Song-book

120
136

EsposiTO (Michele).

Two Melodies for Violin and

Piano

144

Roseen Dhu (Irish Vocal

Suite)

Deirdre (Cantata) . .

The Postboy (Operetta) . .

144
144
144

F.

Field (John).

Irish Air, with Variations . .
FiTZOERALD (see Guernsey).
FiTZMAURICE (H.).

New Collection of Irish Airs

FlTZSIMONS (BdWAKD).

A Selection of Original Melo-
dies of Erin
Flood (W. Grattan).

Moore's Irish Melodies (new

ed.)

The Spirit of the Nation

(new ed. ) . .
History of Irish Music
Story of the Bagpipe
Story of the Harp . .

FORDE.

300 National Melodies
Encyclopaedia of Melody (6
vols, )

*See also

142

117

119

Po.x; (Ayn.sley).

Songs
Fox (C. Milligan).

Annals of the Irish Harpers

Songs of the Irish Harpers . .

Four Irish Songs
Eraser (A. D.).

Some Reminiscences and the
Bagpipe
Eraser (Capt. O. M. Fkaser).

Collection of Highland Airs
and Melodies . . 138,

154
132

14fi

157

140

G.

150

QUI and Co.'s Song-boohs
Glover (J. W.).

Moore's Irish Melodies

Ten Irish Songs . . . . 128

St. Patrick at Tara (cantata) 142

Erin's Matin Song (cantata)
Goodman (P.).

The Irish Minstrel (3 parts) . .

Irish Choruses for Men's
Voices
Grattan-Flood {see Flood).
Graves (Alfred Peroival)
and Stanford (Sir
Charles Villiers).

Songs of Old Ireland

Songs of Erin
Graves and Wood (Charles).

Irish Folk Songs
Graves (Alfred Percival).

The Irish Song-book
Greaven (Rev. A.).

Cycle of Irish Songs
Grove.

Dictionary of Music and Mu-
sicians (ed. Maitland) . .
Guernsey (Wellington).

Old Songs of Old Ireland
(words by Fitzgerald) . . 120

134

122
154
156
156

122

123

Supplement on p. 34i

127

131

127
129

127

127

145

154

INDEX TO MUSIC-

337

H.
Haakman (J. Jacques).

Fantasia on Irish Airs . . 143
Handel.

The Poor Irish Lad . . 145

Haedbbeck (Carl G.).

Ceata Ceoil 136

Red Hand of Ulster . . 143

Hartstonoe (JI. W. ).

Minstrelsy of Erin . . . . 118

Habty (Hamilton).

Six Songs of Ireland . . 146

Irish Symphony. Three
Traditional Ulster Airs . . 146
Hatton and Molloy (see

Molloy).
Heffernan (W. J.).

Erin's Sacred Harp . . 121

Henderson (John), of Belfast.

Flowers of Irish Melody (2

vols.) 123

Hibernian Muse . . . . 114

HiME.

Selection of Original Irish Airs 117
Collection of Country Dances 114

Hoffman's.

Edition of Petrie for the
Piano 126

HOLDBN (SmOLLET).

Collection of Old-Established
Irish Slow and Quick Tunes 1 1 6

Collection of the Most Es-
teemed Old Irish Melodies

Favourite Irish Airs . . 116

Old Irish Melodies . . . . 116

Holmes (Attgusta).

Irlande 143

HORNCASTLE (F. W.).

Music of Ireland . . . . 121

Hudson.

National Music of Ireland. . 121
Hughes (Herbert).

Irish Country Songs . . 133

Hughes (P. H.).

Gems from the Emerald Isle 125

I.

Inverness Collection of Gaelic

Songs . . . . 140

Irish Tonic Solfaist . . . . 135

J. "
Jackson.

Celebrated Irish Tunes .. 113
Johnson (J. J.) and Moffat.

Irish National Songs . . 129

Joyce (P. W.).

Old Irish Polk Music and
Songs . . . . . . 133

Irish Peasant Songs in the

English Language . . 126

Irish Music and Song . . 136

Ancient Irish Music . . 126

Joyce and Prof. Glover.

Music of Ireland . . . . 126

K.

Kennedy-Fraser (Marjory).

Songs of the Hebrides . . 139
Kerr's

Collection of Reels and
Strathspeys, etc. . . . . 139

KiNLOCH.

One Hundred Airs . . . , 119

L.
Laoide (Eoghan).

Ati Cpuicipe . . . . . . 130

Lee (A.).

Masque . . . . . . 113

Lee (S.).

Gentleman's Catch Book . . 113
Leng (John) and Co.

The People's Irish Songs . . 126
Levey (R. M.).

The Dance Music of Ireland 124
LoHR (Hermann).

Four Irish Lyrics 146

Lynch (John P.).

Melodies oi Ireland . . 122

•See also Supplement on p.'.34i.

338

INDEX TO MUSIC. '•'

M.

MacBean (Laohlan).

Songs and Hymns of the Gael
MaoCullagh (E.).

Collection of Irish Airs
M'Creeky (J.).

Selection from the Ancient
Music of Ireland . .
MacDonald (Donald).

Irish Music and Irish Scales
MacDon-ald (Keith Nokman).

The Gesto Collection of
Highland Music . .
M'Fad yen's

Collections

MacFaRLANE (MALCOIiM).

Binneas nam Bard (Bardic
Melody)
McGotJN.

Repository . .
jMaoIntosh's

Collection of Irish Airs
M'Kenzie (D. C).

Fantaisie Irlandaise
JFacKenzie (John).

The Beauties of Gaelic Poe-
try and Lives of the High-
land Bards
McLean.

Selection of 22 Original Airs
MacLeod (Malcolm C).

Modern (Scottish) Gaelic
Bards
Maitland (see Geove).
Martin (Robeet).

Songs
Mason (Redfekn).

Song-Lore of Ireland
Mendelssohn.

Fantasie on "The Last Rose
of Summer "
Miles (A. H.).

The Al Book of Irish and
Welsh Songs

•See alsp

MiLLIN (S. S.).

The Irish Harp

157

Moffat (Alfbbd).

139

Six Irish Folk Songs

129

The Minstrelsy of Ireland . .

128

119

202 Gems of Irish Melody . .
Fantasia on Irish Melodies

128

for Violin and Piano

142

119

Moffat (Alfred) and John-
son.

158

Irish National Songs
Molloy (J. L.).

129

Songs of Ireland

126

138

MooBB (Thomas).

Letters to Power

154

114

Melodies (Stevenson and

Glover)

133

Irish Melodies (Stevenson

139

and Bishop)

117

Irish Melodies (Stanford) . .

135

116

Irish Melodies (Novello's ed. )
Mountain's

134

114

Hibernian Catch Book

MtTLHOLLAND (JOHN MaCPHER-

113

143

SON).

A Collection of Irish Airs . .

116

Murphy (John).

Irish Airs and Jigs, with

139

Variations . .

118

Musical Miscellany . . 114

138

113

N.

139

Needham (A. A.).

Four Irish Ballads . .

146

A Bunch of Sliamrocks . .

147

149

Novello (publ.), Irish Ain ani

Folk Songs ^. .

151

155

U " -i

o.

141

O'Brien's

Lusorium . . , .

113

O'Brien (Arthur).

126

Old Songs of Ireland

125

Supplement on pi 341.

INDEX TO MUSIC.

339

O'Callaghan (Hon. G.).

Ancient Irish Airs . . 119

O'CAKOIiAN (see CAEOLAlSr).
O'ClTRRY (EtTOEBTE).

" Lectures on the Manners and
Customs of the Ancient

Irish " 153

O'Daly (John).

Poets and Poetry of Munster 123
O'DwYEB (Robert).
AtTijiATi in OifieAccAif . . 137

First Original Irish Opera,
"Eithne".. .. " ..137

O'FARBEIiL.

Irish Music for the Union

Pipes 115

Pocket Companion for the
Irish Pipes . . . . 115

Ogden.

Gems from Ould Ireland . . 125
O'Keeffe (J. G.) ancJ O'Bkibn
(Art).
Handbook of Irish Dances . . 157
O'Neill (Capt. Francis).
Irish Folk Music : A Fasci-
nating Hobby . . . . 157
The Music of Ireland . . 131
Irish Music for the Piano or

Violin 131

The Dance Music of Ireland 131
O'Neill (Norman).

Variations on an Irish Theme 144
O'Neill (Padbaig MaoAodh).
The Songs of Uladh ..132

Operas 137, 143 sq.

O'Suillbabhain (Padraio).

Cei1.eAt)A|i ceoil . . . . 136
OwENsoN (Sydney).

Twelve Original Hibernian
Melodies .. .. ..117

Patterson (Annie W.).
Six Original Gaelic Songs

137

Petbie (Geo.).

Ancient Music of Ireland . . 124
{See also under St.4.nford.)

Pigott and Co.'s Catalogues. 148,149

Power (W.).

Musical Cabinet . . . . 118

R.

145

146

Ritteb (F. L.).

Irish Melodies
Robinson (Joseph).

Arrangements of Melodies
Rogers (Brendan).

ClAitifeAC tiA ti-jAe-oeAl . . 137
RooNEY (Hubert B.).

The Well-known Songs of
Ireland 130

S.

140, 141

144

Scotch Songs
Seymoue (J.).
• Irish May Day
Sheehan (J. J.).

A Guide to Irish Dancing . . 157
Smith (Dr. J.). (See Fitz-

SIMONS.)

Smith (R. A.).

The Irish Minstrel . . . . 119

The Spirit of the Nation . . 122
Spohr (Louis).

Potpourri on Irish Airs . . 143
Stage (Mrs.).

Erin's Harp . . . . . . 145

Stanford (Sir Charles Vil-

LIERS).

The Complete Petrie Collec-
tion of Ancient Irish Music
(3 vols.) .. .. ..130

The Irish Symphony in F
Minor . . . . . . 143

An Irish Idyll in Six Minia-
tures . . . . . . 143

{See also undar Graves.)

'See also Supplement on p. 341.

340

INDEX TO MUSIC.'^

Stockhansen.

Six Irish Polk Songs . . 147

Stureock (J. P.)-

Piping for Boys . . . . 156

Sullivan (Sib Aethtjk).

Symphony in E (The Irish
Symphony) . . . . 142

SUEENNE (J. T.).

Songs of Ireland . . . . 124

T.

Thalbeeg (S.).

Airs Jrlandais

.. 144

Irish Fantasia

.., 144

Thomson.

Hibernian Muse

.. 114

Thomson (Geo.).

A Select Collection

of Irish

Melodies . .

.. 118

Thumoth (Btjekb).

112

Tours (B.).

Old Ireland . .

.. 132

V.

Valentine (publ.).
Songs of Ireland
Vocal Magazine

W.
Walker (Joseph Cooper), the

Historical Memoirs of
Irish Bards
Wallace (W. Vincent).

M61odie Irlandaise . .

Favourite Irish Melodies . .
Walsh (William).

Irish Tunes for the Scottis'.i
and Irish War Pipes
Walsh (Rev. P.).

CntiAfAcc t)eA5 Arnfkn (6
Nos.)
White (Dr.).

Legendary Ballads . .
Whitehead (Fr. W.).

Songs of the Highlands
Wilson (J.).

Musical EriCyclopsedia
Wright (D.).

Aria di Camera . . . . 112

132
113

153

144
142

135

137

124

138

124

*See also Supplement on p. 341.

SUPPLEMENT TO MUSIC SECTION.

Adams.

Musical Repository . . .. 115

BUBKB (ThTJMOTH).

CoUectioa — English, Irish,

and Scottish Airs. . . . 112
Campbell.

Albyn's Anthology . . . . 138

COLLISON.

Irish Suite in E Minor . . 144

COLTTMBA.

Collection of Gaelic Songs . . 140
CULWICK (J. C).

The Distinctive Characteris-
tics of Irish Melody . . 158
Edinburgh Musical Miscellany 138
Flood (Dr. W. H. G.).

Songs 148

Folk-Song Society, Journal of

Irish 158

Graves and Stanfokd.

Irish Songs and Ballads . . 127
Henebby (Rev. R.).

Irish Music . . . . . . 158

Inverness Collection of High-
land Pibroohs, Laments,
Quicksteps and Marches . . 140
Irish Folk-Songs for a Medium

Voice 147

Journal of Irish Folk-Song

Society . . ■ ■ ■ • 158

Lyre, The Celtic, Gaelic Songs

(Fionn) . . • • . . 140

MacBean. _

Songs, Hymns, and Psalms
of Scottish Highlands . . 140

Maodonald's

Collection of Highland Airs 138
Moffat (A.).

Gems of Irish Song. . . . 128

Mobbison's

Highland Airs and Quick-
steps 139

MtTLHOLLAND (J.).

Collection of Irish Airs . . 118
Musical Museum, The Soots'. . 138
Neale.

Collection of Irish Tunes . . 112
Nebdham.

Four Lyrics . . . . . . 140

Your Father's Boreen . . 147
One Hundred Songs of Ire-
land (1859) . . . . 125
O'Neill (Rev. G., S.J.).

Hymns to SS. Patrick and

Brigid 147

Oswald's

Caledonian Pocket Com-
panion . . . . . . 138

Pelissibe (W. H.).

Connla of the Golden Hair . . 145
School and Home Songbook. . 127
Stewart (Sib R.).

Choruses and Songs . . 14.3

Stewabt.

Killin Collection of High-
land Music . . . . 140
Thomson's

Four Sets of Scottish Aii-s. . 138
Vocal Magazine (4 vols. ) ..115

v.— INDEX TO PLAYS (TITLES).

Absentee, The (Graves and

Walle) 2

Absentee, The . . . . 217, 258

Agent and the Absentee, The
(McNeil) . . . . . . 176

Agra-na-Chree (Falconer) . . 203
Aileen Asthore ; or, Irish Fi-
delity (Hazlewood) . . . . 205

Aileen ; or, Foiied at Last

(CoUins) 208

Alarm Clock, The (Montgomery) 309
Alien, The Rose of Killamey . . 201
All Hallow's Eve ; or. Snap

Apple Night- 210

All Hallow's Eve (Hon. Mrs.
Forbes and Whitbread) . . 233

Alone (Beilly) 304

Alone in London (Buchanan

and Jay) 219

Amends for Ladies (Field) . . 161
Amergin (McSweney) . . . . 217

Amorous Bigot, The (Shad-

well) 163

Auchora Macree . . . . 207

Andy Blake (Boucicault) . . 194
Angela (Hanly) . . . . 304

Apprentice, The (Murphy) . . 166
Around the World . . . . 314

Arrah-Ma-Beg 206

Arrah-na-Brogue . . . . 205

Arrah-na-Pogue ; or, The Wick-
low Wedding (Boucicault)) 196
Arrah Niel ; or. The Vale of

Knookfierna . . . . 208

Arranopia (Giraldi) . . . . 159

Arrival at Grow Street ; or,
Thespian from Tanderagee . . 172

At the Hawthorn Bush (Bar-
low) 313

At the Rising of the Moon
(Grange) . . . . . . 255

Bad Quarter of an Hour, A

(Costello) 237

Baihff of Ballyfoyle, The ; or,

Ireland in the Penal Days. . 312
Baihff of Kilmore, The (Ford) 282
Balla-go-Paugh (Towers) . . 215
Ballinasloe Boy, The (Hazle-
wood). . . . . . . . 205

Ballyvogan (Lloyd) . . . . 226

Bamfylde Moore Carew^ ; or.

The King of Beggars . . 191

Banks of the Boyne Water

(Bishop) 223

Banshee's Spell, The (Watson) 221
Banshee, The ; or. The Spirit

of the Boreen (Levey) .. 210
Bantry Bay (Bond) . . . . 241

Ban try Bay (Reynolds) .. 172

Bard Gus an Fo, An (The
Bard and the Knight) —

(McSwiney) 217

Barney the Baron (Lover) . . 177
Barney in Connemara (Slaugh-
ter) 278

Barney's Courtship ; or, MoUie

Dear (Maoarthy) . . . . 321

Baron Munchausen';^ or,'^The
Genii of the Emerald Isle . . 192

INDEX TO PLAYS.

343

Bashful Irishman, The . . 2Q0

Battle of Aughrim, The ; or.
The Fall of Monsieur St.
Ruth (Ashton) . . . . 166

Battle of Castlekuock, The

(Campbell) 289

Beaux Stratagem, The (Far-
quhar) . . . . . . 164

Before Clonmel (Walsh) . . 281
Belles' Stratagem, The (Cow-
ley) ] 70

Bending of the Bough, The

(Moore) 255

Bequeathed Heart, The (Peake) 190
Best of a Bad Bargain, The

(Redmond) 291

Betrayed (Manning) . . . . 218

Betsy (Burnand) . . . . 217

Betting Man's Career, The ; or.
The Shade of Dan Donnelly,
and What Happened to Him 204
Biddy O'Neill ; or. The Daugh-
ter of Erin (Pitt) . . . . 207
Birthright (Murray) . . . . 295
Black Hawks (The) . . . . 240
Blackmouth, The (Mayne) . . 282
Blackmailers, The (Whitbread) 277
Blarney (Creamer) . . . . 212
Blarney (Logan) . . . . 211
Blighted Being, The (Taylor) . . 198
Blonde and Brunette (O'Shea) 211
Blunders at Brighton (see The

Irish Mimic).
Boatman of the Shannon, The

(Towers) 215

Boccogh, The (Gomersall) . . 222
Bold Soger Boy, The (Sayre). . 239
Bong Tong, Come to Balrud-

dery (MacManus) . . . . 276
Bootle's Baby (Moss) . . . . 227
Born to Good Luck (Power). . 184
Botany Bay (Woods and Wil-
son) 233

Botheration . . . . . . 191

Bould Soger Boy, The (Ster-
ling) " ..197

Boycotting (Lady Gilbert) . . 380
Boy Deeds of Cuchulain, The . . 294
Boyne Water, The ; or. The
ReUef of Londonderry (Buck-
stone).. .. .. .. 181

Boy O'Carrol (" Rutherford ") 281
Brand from the Burning, A . . 312
Brian (MoSwiney) . . . . 217

Brian Boroihme . . . . 191

Brian Boroihme (Knowles) . . 187
Brian Boroihme ; or. The

Maid of Erin (O'Meara) . . 173
Brian of Banba (Milligan) . . 254
Brian of Banba (Hobson) . . 213
Brian the Bold and the Cork-
seeking Brothers (McClel-
land) 221

Brian Brou (Strange and Ed-
wards) 237

Brian Brou (Bottle) . . . . 243

Bridget O'Brien, Esquire (Lys-

ter and Sheridan) . . . . 226

Bridget's Blunders (Smith) . . 234
Brine Oge, The (Patmore) . . 237
Buckle Beggar, The (Guinan) . . 315
Building Fund, The (Boyle) . . 279
Bunch of Lavender, A (Barlow) 313
Bunch of Shamrocks, A (Bate-
man and Douglas) . . . . 238
Burden, The (Worthington) . . 307
Buried Life of Deirdre, The

(Booth) 316

Bursting of the Bubble, The
(Hyde) 259

C.

Call of the West, The (O'Brien) 306
Call to Arms, The (Kearney) . . 302
Canavans, The (Lady Gregory) 260
Captain O'Blunder ; or. The
Brave Irishman (Sheridanl. . 165

344

INDEX TO INLAYS.

Captain of the Hosts ("Mayne") 283
Casting Out of Martin Whelan,

The {" Ray ") . . . ■ 297

Cead Mille Failthe (Murdock) . . 215
Challenge, The (Letts) . . 286

Charity (Scott) 317

Charles O'Malley (Sayre) . . 238
Charles O'Malley (Moore) . . 226
Charles O'Malley (Macarthy). . 188
Chorus Lady, The (Forbes) . . 294
Chronicle History of Perkin

Warbeak, The (Ford) . . 162

City PoUtics (Crowne) . . 163

Civil War (Dukes) . . . . 306

Clancy Kame, The (Robinson) 292
Coats (Lady Gregory) . . . . 263

Cola's Fury ; or, Lyrenday's

Misery (Burkhead) . . . . 162

Colleen Bawn Settled at Last

(Brough and Haliday) . . 202
Colleen Bawn, The (Boucieault) 194
Collegians, The . . . . 180

Colleen Glas, The (Logue) . . 212
Colonel O'Shea's Wager (Burns) 304
Coming of Ardeen, The (Cos-

tello) 237

Coming of Fionn, The (Standish

O'Grady) 256

Committee, The (Howard) . . 163
Confederates, The (Boyle) . . 280
Confounded Foreigners (Web-
ster) 187

Conn ; or. Out of Sight, Out

of Erin (Green) . . . . 216

Connaught Wife, The {see A

Journey to Bristol). 168

Connemara (Chute). . , 217

Connie Soogah, The ; or. The

Wearing of the Green . . 209
Connla of the Golden Hair

(Pelissier) 234

Conor O'Nial (Longhaye) . . 515
Conspiracy of Dublin, The 199
Conversion of the Cailin, The

(O'Heer) 277

Coolean Dawn (Dutnell and

Johnston) 201

Cooni-na-Goppel (Carleton) . . 320
Corney Rhue (Connor) . . 214

Countess Cathleen (Yeats) . . 248
Country Dressmaker, The (Fitz-
maurice) . . ' . . . . 285

Cousin Kate (Davies) . . . . 269

Creamery Clerk, The (Shakes-
peare) . . . . . . 307

Croppy Boy, The (Alfred) . . 297
Cross Roads, The (Robinson) . . 292
Cruskeen Lawn (McCarthy) . . 232
Cuchulain (Upton) . . . . 227

Cuehulain (Suseen and John

Varian) 316

Cuckoo's Nest, The (Guinan) 315
Cupid in Kerry (Leamy) . . 281
Cushla-Ma-Cree (Levey) . . 210

D.

Daddy O'Dowd (Boucieault).. 190
Dandy Fifth, The (5th Royal

Irish) — (Sims and Corri) . . 241
Daniel O'Connell (Robinson). . 221
Daniel O'Connell ; or, Kerry's

Pride and Munster's Glory

(Levey) 211

Daniel O'Rourke ; or. Rhymes

of a Pantomime (Croker) . . 178
Darby the Dodger (Lynam) . . 200
Darby O'Rourke and the Eagle;

or. Harlequin and the Man

in the Moon . . . . . . 190

Darby in Arms (Millihen) . . 174
Dark Glen of Bajlyfoihl, The

(Sterling) 207

Daughter of Ireland, A (Hur-

son) 305

Daughter of Erin, A (Miss Le

Fanu Robertson) . . . . 231

Daughter of Donagh, The (Mil-

ligan), 253

INDEX TO PLAYS.

345

Dawning of the Day, The

(Boyle) 280

Day in DubUn, A (Williams). . 307
Day in Paddy's Market, A

("Fox") 273

Dead o' Night Boys (Brandon) 211
Dear Hearts o£ Ireland . . 255
Deirdre (Esposito and RoUes-

ton) 258

Deirdre (Russell) . . . . 269

Deirdre (Ferguson) . . . . 307

Deirdre (Yeats) . . . . 251

Deirdre of the Sorrows (Synge),
(Incidental Music by John F.

Larchet) 269

Dermot and Kathleen ; or. The

Irish Wedding (Byrne) . . 172
Dermot O'Donoghue, the
Stranger from Belfast

(Fraser) 208

Derry DrisooU ; or. The Sports-
man Pearl (Macherne and

Aylmar) 215

Dervorgilla (Lady Gregory) . . 262
Destruction of the Hostel, The

(Colum) 266

Devil's in the Room, The .. 121
Dhiuv Gow, The . . . . 222

Dhrame, The ; or, Barney's

Mistake (Nugent) . . . . 214
Diarmid (Lome and M'Cunn) . . 241
Diarmid and Griana (Moore
and Yeats), (Incidental Music
by Sir Edward Elgar) . . 249
Dick Sheridan (Buchanan) . . 219
Dillock Girl, The . . . . 192
District Councillor, The (Ham-
ilton) 376

Diver's Luck, The (Cooke) . . 209
Doctor, The (O'Beirne) . . 270

Doctor's Boy, The . . . . 312

Doctor's Dilemma, The (Shaw) 271

Doctor Paddy 222

Donagh, The ; or. The Rose of
Killarney (Bowe) . . . . 223

Donagh, The (Groves) . . 180

Donagh 's Romance . . . . 222

Don Paddy de Bazan (Groves) 198
Donnybrook (PeUer) . . . . 242

Double Disappointment, The

(Mendez) 165

" Down in Kerry " (MaoCar-

thy) 311

Dramatic Values (Montague),

(book) '.

Drone, The (Mayne) . . . . 282

Drums of Doom, The (Stuart) 312
Dublin Boy, The (see Andy

BlakB).
Dublin Bay (Robertson) . . 207
Dublin by Night . . . . 218

Duke's Motto, The (Brougham) 189
Dumb Wife, The ; or, Irish

Promotion . . . . . . 192

Dunmore ; or, the Days of the

Land League (Murphy) . . 228

E.

Earth, The (Fagan) . . . . 254

Easter Fire on the Hill of
Slane (Kaenders) . . . . 311

Edmund Burke (Sayre) . . 240

Eileen Asthore (Sayre) . . 240

Eileen Alannah ; or. The Out-
laws of the Glen -(Mahoney) 235
Eileen Dhu (Gordon) . . 222

Eileen Oge ; or, Dark's the
Hour Before Dawn (Fal-
coner) . . . . . . 203

Eily O'Connor (Haines) . . 181

Eily O'Connor (Wilks) . . 180

Eithne (O'Dwyer and O'Kelly) 290
Eleanor's Enterprise (" Bir-
mingham ") . . . . . . 315

Eloquent Dempsey, The (Boyle) 279
Embers, The (Corkery) . . 294

Emerald Isle, The (Sullivan,
German, and Hood) . . 255

346

INDEX TO PLATS.

Emerald Bing, The . . . . 191

Emerald Queen, The (Travers)^206
Emigrant's Daughter, Thejjtj

(Raymond) 186

Emigration (O'Grady) . . 220

Emigration (Connor) . . . . 214

Enchanted Harp, The ; or.

Harlequin for Ireland (Cross) 173
Enchanted Sea, The (Martyn) 252
Enthusiast, The (" Puroell ") 272
Epilogue, The (Corkery) . . 295
Erin-go-Bragh ; or. The Mile-
sian Trust in Luck . . . . 208
Erin-go-Bragh ; or. The Wren

Boys of Kerry (Hazlewood) 205
Escape of Red Hugh, The (Mil-

ligan) 253

Etiquette ; or, A Wife for a
Blunder (Power) . . . . 184

Eviction (O'Grady) . . . . 219

Eviction, The (Ewing) . . 310

Exiles of Erin, Tlie ; or, St.
Abe and his Seven Wives
(Buchanan) . . . . . . 219

Exile, The (O'Toole) . . . . 286

Eyes of the Blind, The (Letts) 285

F.

Fair Hibernian, The (David-
son) 320

Fair Irish Maid (McCarthy) . . 301
Fairy Circle, The ; or Con

O'Carolan's Dream (Grattan) 185
Fairy Follower, The (Guinan) 315
Fairy Man, The (Hazlewood).. 205
Fairy Finder ; or, Larry and

the Leprechaun (O'Grady) . . 220
Faithful Irishwoman, The

(Clive) 168

Faithful Irishman, The {see

The Committee).
Falsely Accused (Carlyle) . . 241
Falsely .,^Tru6 (Johanna Red-
mond 290

Family Failing (Boyle) . . 280

Famine, The (O'Grady) . . -220

Fanny's First Play (Shaw) . . 272
Fardorougha the Miser (Ma-

grath) 226

Fardorougha and the Black

Prophet (Stanley) . . . . 242

Fardorougha (Downey) . . 227

Father Murphy ; or. The Hero

of Tullow (Allen) . . . . 300

Father's Oath, The . . . . 234

Fand of the Fair Cheek (Blunt) 273
Feis at Ancient Tar a. The . . 313
Fenian, The (O'Grady) . . 220

Fenian's Death, The (Moran) . . 297
Fiddler's House, The (Colum) . . 265
Fin Maccoul (Boucicault) . . 196
Finnigan's Fortune (Art) . . 240
Finola ; or. The Marriage of

Tara (Dawson) . . . . 216

Fionn (O'Grady) . . . . 256

Fionn and Tera (Lome and

Drysdale) . . . . . . 241

Fires of Pate (Doyle) . . . . 296

Fisherman's Daughter, The

(Ward and Curran). . . . 235

Flame on the Hearth, The

(O'Kelly) 287

For Ireland's Sake ; or, Under

the Green Flag (Muldoon).. 314
Forge, The (Darling) . . . . 315

Fortune's Soldier (see The

Happy Man).
Fotheringay, The (Kirwan) . . 269
Four 'Prentices of London,

with the Conquest of Jeru-
salem, The (Haywood) . . 101
Four-leaved Shamrock, The

(Travers) 206

Four-leaved Shamrock (Ham-
ilton) 321

Four Kings, The ; or, Paddy in

the Moon (Hazlewood) . . 205
Freedom's Cause ; or, O'Don-
nell the Outlaw (Wyley) . . 300

INDEX TO PLATS.

347

!Prenoh are on the Sea, The

(MiUigan) 254

French Huzzar, The (Whit-
bread) 226

Fugitive, The (McGIoughUn). . 308
FuUMoon, The (Lady Gregory) 263
Fun on the Bristol . . . . 220

G.

Galway-go-Bragh ; or. Love,
Fun and Fighting (Falco-
ner) 202

Gallant of Galway, A (Duncan) 256
Gaol Gate, The (Lady Gregory) 261
Garret O'Magh (Piton) . . 236

Garryowen ; or. The Bells of

Shandon (Lavery) . . . . 215

Genius of Ireland, The (Mao-

auley) 170

Gentleman from Ireland, A

(O'Brien') 198

Gerald of Kildare (Bibby) . . 201
Gerald (MoNevin) . . . . 180

Girl of my Heart, The (Leonard) 239
Glendalough (Gurney) . . 230

GUocas (O'Shea) . . . . 313

God of War, The (Whitlook) 242
Golden Hehnet, The (Yeats) 251
Gombeen's Gold, The ; or.

Creeping Shadows . . 229

Gomerel, The (Mayne) . . 383

Gommoch, The (O'Grady), (see

The Fairy Finder.)
Good People, The (Pearse) . . 318
Gra Gal Machree (Connor) . . 241
Gramaohree Molly ; or, The
Lily of the Lakes . . . . 192

Gran-u-Aille 231

Granna-Waile ; or. The Bridal

Eve (Archer) . . . . 211

Great Change, The (Partridge) 281

Green Shores of Erin . . . . 322

Green upon the Cape, The

(MiUigan) 254

Green Bushes, The (Buckstone) 181
Green Helmet, The (Yeats) . . 251
Grin Bushes, The ; or, Mrs.

Brown of Missusippi . . . . 206
Groves of Blarney, The (Hall) 182

H

Half-Sir, The (McHugh) . . 323

Handy Andy (Floyd) . . . . 203

Handy Andy (Montgomery) . . 203

Happy Hooligan (Humphries) 300

Happy Man, The (Lover) . . 177
Hard - Hearted Man, The

(MacManus) 274

Harem Doctor, The (Murray,

Baynes, and Ives) . . . . 312
Harlequin Fulminoso ; or, The
Gardens of Glen-Fearna

(WaUer) 197

Harlequin Shaun a Lanthero ;
or, Pin M'Coul and the

Fairies of Lough . . . . 192

Harlequin and O'Donoghue ;
or. The White Horse of Kil-
larney . . . . ..196

Harp that Once, The (MiUigan) 253

Harvest (Robinson) . . . . 293

Harvest (Hamilton) . . . . 223

Hearts o' the West (Cassidy) . . 238

Hearts of Erin (MiU and Bruske) 233

Heather Field, The (Martyn) . . 252
Henri Quatre ; or, Paris in the

Old Time 178

Hermit and the King, The

(Corkery) 294

Hibernia Freed (Phillips) . . 164
Hibernia's Triumph . . . . 165
Hie et Ubique ; or. The Hu-
mours of Dublin (Head) . . 163
Himself and the Widda (Lowry [ 305
His Last Legs (Bernard) . . 183
History of Sir John Oldcastle,
The 160

348

INDEX TO PLAYS.

Holocaust, The (McSwiney) . . 304

Homecoming, The (O'Kelly) . . 287
Home Rule (Brady) .. ..219
Home Sweet Home (Fitzpat-

rick and Markievicz) . . 289
Home Rule (Brougham) . . 189
Honest Thieves, The (Knight) 172
Honest Wliore, The (Decker). . 160
Honor's Choice (Johanna Red-
mond) 290

Hospital Ward, A (Muldoon). . 314

Hour Glass, The (Yeats) . . 249

How to Pay the Rent (Power) 184

Hugh Roe O'Donnell(O'Grady) 256

Hugh O'Neill (Maol) . . . . 273

Humours of an Irish Court of

Justice, The . . . . . . 165

Hyacinth Halvey (Lady Gre-
gory) . . . . . . . . 261

Hyde Park (Shurley) . . . . 162

Icebound ; or, The Exiles of
Fortune (Cooke and Wal-

dron) 209

II Paddy Whack in Italia

(Lover) 177

Image, The (Lady Gregory) . . 263
Imaginary Conversation, An

(Connell) 291

I'm Not Myself at all (Maltby) 243
In and Out of Place . . . . 200

Jnchavogue (Cahill) . . . . 209

Indian Mutiny, The . . . . 234

In Fear of the Law . . . , 242

Informers (Creamer) . . . . 212

Innisfallen ; or, The jUan in

the Gap (Falconer) . . . . 203
Inspector's Visit ; or, Paddy
Byrnes, the Irish School-
s' master, The (Fitzgerald) . . 201
Insurgent Chief, The (Whit-
bread) 225

International Exhibition, An

(Ryan) 214

In the Days of the Union . . 320
In the Shadow of the Glen

(Synge) 264

Invincibles, The . . . . 178

Ireland as it Was (Amherst). . 200
Ireland Preserved ; or, The
Siege of Londonderry (Michel-
borne) . . . . . . Kjj

Irish Absentee, The (Hyde) . . 187
Irish Ambassador,The(Kenney) 188
Irish Aristocracy . . . . 222

Irish Artist, The (Piton and

Jessop) 235

Irish Assurance and Yankee

Modesty 240

Irish Assurance {nee His Last

Le^s).
Irish Attorney, The (Bernard) 183
Irish Attorney, The (Father

Irwin) 296

Irish Belle, The {see The Irish
Widow) . . . . . . 209

Irish Chairman (Dibdin) . . 190
Irish Diamond . . . . . . 197

Irish Diamonds . . . . 212

Irish Doctor, The ; or. The

Dumb Woman Cured (Wood) 192
Irish Dragoon, The (Whit-
bread) 226

Irish Dragoon, The ; or. Wards

in Chancery (Selby) . . 193
Irish Elopment, An . . . . 220
Irish Election, The (Fitzgerald) 201
Irish Emigrant, The (Broug-
ham) 189

Irish Engagement, An . . .. 218

Irish Eyes . . . . , . 228

Irish Fine Lady, The (Macklin) 167
Irish Footman, The {see Two

to One)
Irish Gentleman, An (Jturray
and Shine) . . . . . . 240

Irish Heiress, The (Bouoicault) 193

TNIJEX TO PLAYS.

Irish Hospitality ; or. Virtue

Rewarded (Shadwell) .. 164

Irish Intrigue, An (Doyle) . . 210
Irish Knight, The . . . . 159

Irish Land Agent, The (O'Con-
nor) . . . . . . . . 208

Irish Land Agent, The . . . . 234

Irish Legacy, The (Arnold) . . 172
Irish Life (Creamer) . . . . 212

Irish Lion, The (Buckstone). . 181
Irish Manufacture ; or, Bob
M'Gawley's Project (Carle-
ton) 190

Irish Masque at Court, The
(Johnson) . . . . . . 162

Irish Mesmerism (see His Last

Legs).
Irish Mimic, The (O'Keeffe) . . 171
Irish Minstrel, The ; or. The

Exiles of Fortune (Count). . 206
Irish Post, The (Planohe) . . 178
Irish RebelUon, The . . . . 162

Irish Serf, The (Boshelle) . . 193
Irish Tar, The (Oulton) . . 172

Irish Tiger, The (Morton) . . 193
Irish Tutor, The (Glengall).. 176
Irish Valot, The (Wilson) . . 174
Irish Widow, The (Garrick).. 169
Irish Woman, The (Clarke).. 175
Irishman, The (Whitbread) . . 224
Irishman's Fortune, The {see

Born to Good Luck).
Irishman's Heart ; or. The

Kiss of the Blarney (Levey) 210
Irishman's Home, The . . 182

Irishman's Home, The . . 211

Irishman in Italy, The (Moul-

ter) 173

Irishman in London (Macready ) 180
Irishman in Spain, The (Stuart) 172
Irishman's Manoeuvre. . .. 320
Irishman's Policy, An (Rich-
ardson) 212

Island of Statues (Yeats)

J.

Jackdaw, The (Lady Gregory, 262
Janet O'Brien (Robinson) . . 207
Jealous Wife, The (Colman).. 167
Jerry-Builder, The (Paul) . . 318
Jerry Coyne's Double ; or.
The Dream in the Fairy
Ring (O'Connor) . . .'. 214

Jilt, The (Bouoicault). . . . 196

John Bull (Bouoicault's Ver-
sion) . . . . . . . . 195

John Bull (Colman) .. ..173

John Bull's Other Island, etc.

(Shaw) 211

Jokers, The (O'Donovan) . . 280
Journey to Bristol ; or. The
Honest Welshman Farce
(Hippisley) . . . . . . 165

Judy O'Hara (Burnett and
Stanley) 310

K.

Kate Kearney ; or. The Maid
of Killarney (Collier) ..185

Kate Kearney . . . . . . 1 98

Katherine Kavanagh (Berin-
ger) 293

Kathleen Mavourneen ; or, a
Dream of St. Patrick's Eve
(Travers) 206

Kathleen ni Houlihan (Yeats) 249

Kathleen O'Neill (Balfour) . . 175

Kathleei O'Neill, Ireland Re-
deemed ; or, The Devoted
Princess (Pepper) . . . . 179

Kerry ; or. Night and Morn-
ing (Boucicault) . . . . 175

Kevin's Choice (Wallworth),
{see The Maid of Glenda-
lough).

Killarney (Falconer), (see Innis-
f alien).

350

INDEX TO PLAYS.

Killarney (Weldron). 242

Killarney ; or. The Maiden's
Wish and the Fairy of the
Lake (George) . . . . 208

Kincora (Lady Gregory) . . 261
King Brian Boroihme ; or,
^Harlequin Prince Roderick
and the Fair Eveleen, or the
Banshee of Kincora . . . . 204

King's Monkey, The ; or, Fat

and the Potatoes . . . . 191

King O'Neill; or. The Irish

Brigade (Gore) . . . . 183

King O'Toole's Goose, His Six
Sons ; or. Harlequin Fin
M'Coul and the Fairies of

Glendalough 222

King O'Toole's Goose and the
Legends of Glendalough (Ir-
win) 199

King Henry V. (Shakespeare) 160
Kittie (Butler) . . . . 260

Kitty's Troubles (Glenville) . . 310
Knight of Arva, The (Bouci-

cault) 193

Knight of the Road, The
(French and CoUison) , . 230

L.

Lad from Largymore, The
(MacManus) 215

Lad of the Hills, The (O'Keeffe) 171

Lady Clancarty ; or. Wedded
and Wooed (Taylor) . . 189

Lady Frederick (Maugham).. 286

Lady of Kildare ; or. Married
in Mistake . . . . . . 208

Lady of Munster, The {see Per-
fection)

Lady Slavey, The (Dance and
Crook) 235

Lancashire Witches, The (Shad-
well) 163

Land, The (Colum) . . . . 265

Land Hunger, The (O'Dwyer) 299
Land of Heart's Desire, The

(Yeats) 248

Last Feast of the Fiarnia, The

(MilUgan) 253

Last Irish King, The (Russell) 213
Last of the Desmonds, The

(Milligau) 253

Last of the O'Learys, The

(Fahy) 207

Last of the O'Rourke's, The ;

or. It's Only My Cousin . . 204
Last Warriors of Coole, The

(M'Swiney) 303

Latest from New York (Coyne) 199
Laying of the Foundations, The

(Ryan) 258

Leaders of the People (Harding) 289
Leading Road to Donegal, The

(MacManus) 216

Leaguers and Peelers (Mit-
chell) 316

Leap Year in the West (Red-
mond) 290

Leaves of Shamrock (Sullivan) 230
Lepracaun ; or. The Lovers of

Tara Vale (Levey) . . . . 210

Lepracaun, The . . . . 284

Lesson of Life, The (Robinson) 292
Levite, The (Murray) . . . . 295

Life in Dublin ; or, Tom,
Jerry, and Logic on their
Travels (Egan) . . . . 183

Life in the Clouds (Brougham) 187
Life We Live, The (Mackey and

Denbigh) 229

Lily of KiUarney, The (Oxen-
ford and Benedict) . . . . 204
Link o' Gold (Capel) . . . . 223
Little Cowherd of Slainge, The

(Campbell) 277

London Arab, A . . . . 255

Long Strike, The (Boucicault) 195
Lord of Carrigogunnel, The
(Oxenford and Bozzelli) . . 304

INDEX TO PLAYS.

351

Lord Dunnohoo (Redgrave and

Turner) 240

Lord Edward , or, '98 (Whit-
bread) 224

Lord Edward Fitzgerald

(O'Brien) 190

Lost Heir, The (AKred) . . 297

Lost Saint, The (Lady Gregory) 265
Lost Ship, The ; or. The Ameri-
can Steamer . . . . . . 191

Love a la Mode (Macklin) . . 167
Love and Law (Edgeworth) . . 175
Love Charm, The (Boyle) . . 280
Love in a Cottage (Hood) . . 274
Love in a Camp ; or, Patrick in
Prussia (O'Keeffe) . . . . 171

Love is the Conqueror ; or,
The Irish Hero . . . . 167

L. S. D 228

Lucky Stone, The . . . . 216

M.

MacCarthy's Troubles (Vernon

and Tours) 310

MacCarthy More ; or. Nine

Points of the Law (Lover) . . 178
McDaragh's Wife (Gregory) . . 264
McPadden's Plats . . . . 227

McKenna's Flirtation (Selden) 234
Maeve (Martyn) . . . . 252

Magic Sieve, The (Hamilton). . 276
Magnanimous Lover, The (Er-

ving) 310

Maid of Glendalough, The

(Wallworth) 221

Major M'Fee, M.P. (Allan) . . 300
Man and Superman (Shaw) . . 271

Man and Wife 192

Man's Foe, A (O'Cuisin) . . 257

Man in the Moon, The ; or,

•>v Dan O'Rourke and the Eagle,

Harlequin O'Donoghue of the

Lakes and the Leprechauns

of the Fairy Valley (P»<!re),, 216

Man Who Missed the Tide, The

(Casey) 288

Manners Masketh Man (McSwi-

ney) 304

Marks and Faces (Reade and

Taylor) 197

Marriage, The (Lady Gregory) 264
Marriage of Julia Elizabeth,
The (Stephens) . . . . 317

Matchmakers, The (O'Kelly) . . 286
Matchmakers, The (Wheeler) 284
Maureen-na-Laveen (Cooke) . . 239
Mavoureen . . . . . . 234

Mayor of Galway, The (Tighe) 303
Mayor of Rochester, The (Mon-

crieff) 186

Meagher of the Sword (Alfred) 297
Memory of the Dead (Markie-

vioz) 303

Mephistopheles ; or. The Yan-
kee 199

Mere Coupable, La (The Guilty

Wife), (Beaumarchais) . . 166
Message, The (Pearse) . . 302

Mickey Free (Wilton) . . . . 320

Milesian, The (Jackman) . . 170
Milesian, The (MoDermott) . . 168
Mineral Workers, The (Boyle) 279
Minstrel of Clare, The (Marsden) 236
Mills of God, The (MacLough-

lin) 309

Miracle of the Corn, The

(Colum) 266

Misfortunes of Arthur, The

(Hughes) . . • . . . . 160

Miser's Matchmaking, The . . 278
Miss Deoima (Burnand and

Andrew) 231

Miss Eily O'Connor (Byron).. 203
Miss Elizabeth's Prisoner (Ste-
phens and Swete) . . . . 277
Mist that does be on the Bog,

The (MaoNamara) . . . . 298

Mixed Marriages (Ervine) . . 309
Modern Ireland (Segar) . , 239

352

INDEX TO PLAYS.

Molly Moriarty{S6dwick) .. 320
Money at a tinoh ; or, The

Irishman's Frolics (Robson) 172
More Blunders than One (Rod-
well) 1 76

More Sinned against than Sin-
ning (Carleton) . . . . 320
Moyna-a-Roon ; or. The Rap-

paree Bride (Levey) . . 210

M.P. ; or. The Blue Stocking

(Moore) 174

Mr. Blarney from Ireland (Bla-

ney) 284

Mr. Sheridan (Ulgar) . . . . 276
Mrs. Hilary Regrets (Smith). . 233
Muldoon's Picnic (Pleon) . . 223
Murphy's Affinity . . . . 392
My Friend in the Strips . . 197
My Irish Molly . . . . 323
My Jealous Partner (Gardi-
ner) ' . . 309

My Lady Molly (Jessop and'
Jones) . . . . . . 256

My Native Land (Manning) . . 231
My Soldier Boy (Maltby and
Linds) 242

N.

Naboolish, (Moylan) . . . . 298

Naming of Cuehulain, The (Fer-
guson) . . . . . . 307

Nationalist, The (Whitbread) 224
Nation Builder, The (O'Lough-

lin) 278

Nativity, The (Lady Gregory) 265
Neale O'Neil (Sidney). . . . 211

Nervous Man and the Man of

Nerve, The (Bernard) . . 182
New Inn, The ; or, The Light

Heart (Jonson) . . . . 161

New Lights (see The Irish

Tutor).
Ninety-eight ; or, Faugh-a-Bal-
lagh (Cooke) . . . . 209

Ninth Statue, The . . . . 175

No. 18, College Green, Dublin

(Boucicault) . . . . . . 179

No Irish Need Apply . . . . 19S

Norah Creena . . . . . . 219

Norah O'Neal (Travers) ..216

Norah's Vows (Boucicault) . . 19.)

Northern Insurgent (Bourke) 305

O.

Oath, Tha (MacManus) . . 276
O'Connell Tableaux . . . . 213

" O'Donuell Aboo " (Stanhope) 212
O'Donnell's Cross (MoManus) . . 287
O'Donoghue of the Lakes and

the Leprechaun ; or. The

Good Little People (Howard) 188
O'Donoghue of the Lakes, The

(Groves) 180

O'Donoghue's Warning, The

(Falconer) 203

O'Dowd, The (Boucicault), [see

Daddy O'Dowd).
O'Dowd's Neighboiu-s . . 230

O'Flaherty, The (Falconer) . . 203
O'Flannigan and the Fairies

(Power) 184

O'Flynn, The (McCarthy) .. 301
O'Grindles, The (Esmond) .. 289
Omadhaun, The (Boucicault) 19o
■O'HoUigan's HoUday (Boque) 235
Oisin in Tir-na-nOg and Oisin

and Padraic (Milligan) . . 253
Oisin the Hero [see Cuehulain)
Old Carlisle Bridge (Smyth) . . 204
Old Fortunatus (Decker) . . 160
Old Land, The (Johnstone) . . 269
Old Soldiers (Byron).. .. 202

Oliver Goldsmith (Moore) . . 233
Oliver Goldsmith (Thomas) . . 255
Omadhan, The (Grattan) . . 185
Omnibus (Pocock) . . . . 179

On Baile's Strand (Yeats) . . 250

INDEX TO PLAYS.

353

One Hundred Pound Note

(Peake) 178

One Hour ; or, The Carnival

Ball (Bayly) 179

O'Neal the Great . . . . 322

On Shannon's Shore ; or, The

Blackthorn (Cooke).. .. 210

On the Frontier . . . . 229

On the King's Threshold

(Yeats) 250

On the Shores of the Shannon

(Clark) ■ 302

On the Telegraph Pole (Neil). . 318
Onus of Ownership, The (Cor-

kery) 294

Ony-na-Pooha ; or, Ony of

the Fairies (Connor). . . . 214

Ooaagh ; or. The Lovers of

Lisnamona (Falconer) . . 203
Orange and Green (MacManus) 276
Orphan Boy, An (O'Kelly) . . 300
Our Irish Visitors . . . . 243

Outcasts of Dublin ; or. Weeds

and Flowers of Erin . . . . 302

Outlaws, The (O'Grady) .. 220
Out of Deep Shadow (Day) . . 314
Over the Stile (Pearse) . . 303

Paddy Carey ; or. The Boy of

Clogheen (Power) . . . . 184

Paddy Miles, the Limerick Boy

(Pilgrim) 186

Paddy the Piper . . . . 200
Paddy the Porter . . . . 191
Pagan, The (Purcell) . . . . 272
Paid in his Own Coin (Moylan) 298
Parting of the Ways, The . . 292
Passion Play, A (Peafse) . . 309
Pat (Roberts and Monkhouse) 232
Pat Among the Fairies . . 319
Pat and the Genii . . . . 292
Pat in Japan ; or. The Aban-
doned Irishman . . ■ • 188

Pat Maher's Temptation (Pur-
cell and Doran) , . . . 316
Pat of Mullingar (Fraser) . . 209
Patrick in Prussia (O'Keeffe) . . 170
Patrick's Return (Byrne) . . 172
Patrick's Vow (Fraser) . . 208
Patriot King, The ; or, the

Irish Chief (Dobbs) . . 169

Patriot Priest, The (Staunton) 298
Patriot's Wife, The (Jarman) . . 254
Pat's Thanksgiving (Frece) . . 208
Pat, the Irish Lancer . . . , 227

Pearl Darrell (Wilton).. .. 222

Peep o' Day ; or, Savourneen

Deelish (Falconer) . . . . 202

Peg the Rake (Rita) . . . . 239

Peg Woffington (Boucicault) . . 194
Peggie Machree (BidWell and

Esposito) 277

Peggy (Mackay) . . . . 218

Peggy Doyle (Hillier) . . . . 290

Penalty of Crime, The (Gilbert) 239
Perfection ; or. The Lady from
Munster (Bayly) . . . . 179

Peter Williams 186

Petticoat Paddy ; or, The Irish-
man and his Seven Sweet-
hearts. . 192

Phadrig, the Bocaun (Werner) 216
Piedish, The (Fitzmaurioe) . . 285
Pike O'Callaghan ; or. The

Irish Patriot (Reeve) . . 206

PiousDublin(Hickey).. .. 298

Piper, The (Connell) . . . . 291

Pish O'Pogue (Lord) . . . . 213

Plaoehunter, The (Martyn) . . 252
Playboy of the Western World,

The (Synge) 268

Playing with Fire (Brougham) 189

Plot, The 309

Plotting Lovers, The ; or. The

Dismal Squire (Shadwell) . . 164
Poorhouse, The (Hyde and
Lady Gregory) . . . . 262

354

INDEX TO PLAYS.

Poor Pariaheen, The ; or, The
Fugitives of Derrinane

(Howe) 207

Poor Soldier, The (O'Keefte). . 171
Poor Strollers, The (Phillips) . . 200
Postbag, The (Graves and Es-
posito) . . . . . . 258

Postheen Phensi, The (Grover) 198
Pot of Broth, A (Yeats) . . 249
Potatoes and Point [see The
Wliite House of the Peppers)

Poul-a-Dhoil 218

Press Cuttings (Shaw).. .. 271
Presumptive Evidence ; or,
Mirder Will Out (Buck-
stone) 180

Pride of Life, The . . . . 159

Priest Hunter, The (O'Grady) 220
Princess Clementina, The (Play-
dell and Mason) . . . . 302
Princess of Meath . . . . 322
Pro Patria (Redmond) . . 290
Pike O'Callaghan

Q.

Queen of Connaught, The . . 216
Queen's Own, The ; or, Irish
Promotion (see The Dumb

Wife)

Queen's ShilUng, The (Godfrey) 217
Queer Subjects, The . . . . 186

Quiet Rubber, A (Coghlan) . . 213

R.

Racing Lug, The (O'Cuisin) . . 257
Rapparee; or. The Treaty of

Limerick . . . . . . 195

Rapparee, The (O'Loughlin). . 288
Rag, (Downey) . . . . 301

Rebellion Defeated ; or, The

Fall of Desmond (Cutts) . . 165

Rebel and Redcoat (Robinson)
Rebels, The (Fagan) . .

Rebels, The ; or, The Irish In-
si-i-gent Chiefs of 1803
(O'Boylan)

Recollections of O'Flannagan
and the Fairies, A (Broug-
ham) . .

Red Fox, The (O'Connell) . .

Red Hugh (Russell) . .

Red Turf (Mayne)

Reformers, The (Purcell)

Rehearsal, The (Redmond) . .

Regan-na-Glenna (Addersley)

Register Office, The (Reed) . .

Rehearsed ; or, Barry's Old
Man (Rickey and Barney) . .

Relief of Lucknow, The (Bou-
cicault)

Remedy, The (White). .

Renegade, The (O'Hare)

Rent (Manning)

Rent Warner, The (O'Connor)

Repertory Theatre, The (Howe)

Rescued (Boucicault). .

Resurrection of Denny O'Dowd,
The (McManus)

Return of Lugh, The . .

Returned Killed (Blanche) . .

Review, The ; or, The Wags
of Windsor . .

Ride for Life, A

Riders to the Sea (Synge) . .

Rising o' the Moon, The (Rans-
ley)

Rising of the Moon, The (Lady
Gregory)

Rivals, The (Sheridan)

Rival Stars (Markievioz)

Robber's Wife, The . .

Robert Emmet (Boucicault)..

Robert Emmet, the Irish Pa-
triot of 1803 (Fraser)

Robert Emmet (Cormell)

Robert Emmet (Digges)

298
254

322

189
221
273
283
272
291
216
167

321

194
308
270
218
222

. 194

275
295
178

186
218
262

262
169
303
179
196

209

218

INDEX TO PLATS.

355

Robert Emmet (Pilgrim) . . 186
Robert Emmet (Clarke) . . 322

Robert Emmet (Marshall) . . 218
Robert Emmet (Gwynn) . . 277
Robert Emmet (Cunningham) 321
Robert Emmet, the Irish Mar-
tyr (O'Sullivan) . , . . 204
Robert Emmet ; or, The Days

of 1803 (Tynan) . . . . 259

Rogue Riley ; or, The Four-
Leaved Shamrock (Mat-

V thews) 238

Rollicking Rory (see The Fairy

Circle)

Romance of Athlone, A (Pitou) 236
Romance of the Irish Stage,

(MoUoy)

Rory O'More (Lover) . . . . 177

Rory O'More (Whitbread) . . 225
Rosaleen Dhu ; or. The Twelve

Pins of Bin-a-Bola (Denver) 281
Rose of Rathboy, The (Fit>

gerald) 243

Rose, Thistle and Shamrock,

The (EdgeWorth) . . . . 175

Rotheric O'Connor, King of
Comnaught ; or, The Dis-
tressed Princess (ShadWell) 164
Round Tower, The; or. The
Chieftains of Ireland (Cross)
Royal Voyage, The ; or, The

Irish Expedition . . . . 163

Rustic Rivals (Guinan) 236, 315
Russian Sacrifice, The ; or. The
Burning of Moscow (Code). . 174

St. Patrick and the Golden
Shanrfock ; or. Harlequin
and the Sleeping Beauty . . 183

St. Patrick at Castleknook
(Campbell) 289

St. Patrick's Day; or. The
Scheming Lieutenant (Sheri-
dan) 170

St. Patrick's Eve (Power) . . 185
St. Patrick for Ireland (Shirley) 162
St. Patrick's Purgatory (Calde-

ron) 197

Saint Stephen's Green ; or.
The Generous Lovers (Phil-
lips) 164

Sally Cavanagh ; or, a Tale of

Tipperary (Mansfield) . . 207
Sarsfield (Whitbread) . . . . 225

Saxon Shilling, The (Colum). . 265
School for Wives (Kelly) . . 169
Sea Swan, The (Chesson and

Butler) 270

Serious Family, The (Barrett) 197
Shadowy Waters, The (Yeats) 250
Shadragh the Hunchback (Wil-
liams) 216

Shaft No. 2 240

Sham Squire, The (Whitbread) 225
Shamrock and the Rose, The

(Reynolds) 229

Shamrock, The ; or. The Anni-
versary of St. Patrick
(O'Keeffe), {see The Poor

Soldier) 170

Shamrock of Ireland, The

(Howe) 206

Shamrocks (Manning) . . 218

Shamus O'Brien, the Bould
Boy of Glengall (Maederand

Vernon) 239

Shandy Maguire ; or. The

Bould Boy of the Mountains 200
Shandy the Spalpeen (Hay-
Ward) 216

Shane the Proud (Boyle) . . 278
Shane-na-Lawn (Roach and

Knox) 228

Shannon Boys (Burke, jun.). . 320
Shaughraun, The (Boucicault) 195

356

INDEX TO PLAYS.

Shawn Long and the Fairies

(Kertland) 184

Shawn O'Dhuv (Murphy) .. 221
Shebeen, The (Harvey) ... 236
Sheelah's Day ; or, Erin Go

Braugh (Lyon) . . . . 174

Sheila's Dilemma (Waters) . . 309
Shemus ! (The Spy of the Glen) 258
Shemus-na-Lena ; or, The Spei-

dor (Towers) 214

Shemus O'Brien (Stanford and
Jessop) . . . . . . 236

Sherlock Holmes (Gillette and

Doyle) 243

Shindy in a Shanty, A

(O'Grady) 219

Shin Fain ; or. Ourselves Alone

(deary) 221

Shingawn, The ; or. Old Ire-
land's Shamrock has not
Withered yet (Sterling) . . 207
Shoulder to Shoulder (Whit-
bread) 224

Shuiler's Child, The (O'Kelly) 287
Siege of jLiraerick, The (Barry) 204
Silken Thomas ; or, St. Mary's
Abbey (Bibby) . . . . 201

Sigrid (Tarpy) 284

Skull, The (MoGloughlin) .. 308
Sleep of the King, The (O'Cui-

sin) 257

Smock Alley Secrets ; or, The

Manager Worried (Le Fanu) 170
Snare, The (Boyal) . . . . 323

Socalists, The (Letts).. .. 286

Soggarth, The 228

Soggarth Aroon (Coleman) . . 241
Soggarth Aroon, The (McLoren) 314

Sold (O'Cuisin) 257

Soldier of Fortime, The ; or.

The Irish Settler . . . . 205

Sons of Erin, The ; or. Modern

Sentiment (Mrs. Le Fanu). . 174
Sons of Erin (Patmore) . . 235

174

224

284
299
229

. . 260

300

300
293
299
293
299

Spalpeen, The (Brahain) . . 212

Spaniard and Siorlamh, The
(Fitzgerald) . .

Spectres of the Past, The ; or.
Homeless in the Streets of
Dublin (Whitbread)

Spell, The (Langbridge), (Inci-
dental Music by Norman
O'Neill)

Sponge, The (Moylan)

Sprissaun, The (Reynolds) . .

Spreading the News (Lady
Gregory)

Spurious Sovereign, The ; or.
Nailed to the Counter
(J. O. E.)

Spy of the Glen, The ; or, The
Patriot's Return (Allen)

Stella and Vanessa (Graves)

Stephen Gray (Kelleher)

Stepmother, The (Tynan)

Storm, The (Barden) . .

Strathlogan (Overton and Moss) 233

Strongbow ; or. The Bride of
the Battlefield (French and
Collison) 230

Struck (O'Leary) . . . . 301

Suburban Groove, The (Casey) 288

Suil Dhuv the Coiner (Dibdin) 182

Sumachaun, The (Connor) . . 214

Sun God, The (McManus) . . 287

Susannah and the Sovereigns
(Purcell and MacNamara). .

Suspect's Daughter, The ; or,
The Rose of Ballymahon . .

Swift and Vanessa (Bartho-
leyus),.

Swaddler (Griffith)

Sweet Innisfail (Reynolds) . .

Sweet Innisfail . .

Sweet Inniscarra (Piltoa)

Sweet Lavender (Pinero)

Sword of Dermot, The (O'Cui-
sin) 257

272

219

274
168
229
295
235
227

INDEX TO PLAYS.

357

Tale of a Town, The (Martyn) 252

Tara (Glover) 213

Teacher from Fairyland, The

(Ryan) 306

Teague's Ramble to London . . 168
Teddy the Tiler (Rodwell) . . 176
Teig Corcoran's Courtship (Gre-

gan) 307

Temptation (Brougham) . . 189
Terence (Croker) . . . . 296

Terence (Morgan) . . . . 270

Terry ; or, True to his Trust

(Vane) 232

That Rascal Pat (Grover) . . 198
Theobald Wolfe Tone (Whit-
bread) 225

Thierna-na-0-go; or, The Prince

of the Lakes (Cooke) . . 179

Thomas Muskerry (Colum) . . 266
Through Death Valley ; or.
The Mormon Peril (La

Brandt) 318

Tim Carthy's Trial . . . . 322

Timothy Ryan's Return (New-
ton and Hoffman) . . . . 321
Tight Irish Boy, The . . . . 172
Tinker's Wedding, The (Synge) 268
Tinker and the Fairy, The

(Hyde) 259

Tipperary Legacy, The (Coyne) 186
To the Green Isles Direct (Ak-

hurst) 211

Tom Cobb ; or, Fortune's Toy

(Gilbert) 212

Tom Moore (Walsh) . . . . 281

Tom Moore (Sayre) . . . . 239

Townland of Tamnay, The
(MaoManus) . . . . . . 275

Toy Part, The (Cronan) . . 308
Tragedy of Truth, The (see The

Spell)

Trail of the Serpent, The
(Markham) , 277

Transformation of Fionn, The

(S. O'Grady) 256

Travelling Man, The (Lady

Gregory) 263

Trilby (Potter) 236

Trinity Student, The (Mul-

doon) 3U

Trip to Chicago, A (Sheridan
and Haydon) . . . . 237

Tristram and Iseult (Carr) . . 280
Tristram and Isolda (Wagner) 203
Triumph of Maeve (Gore Booth) 310
Trooper Hunt's Widow (Jar-
man) . . . . . . . . 254

Troth, The (Mayno) . . . . 282

True-born Irishman, The (Ste-
vens) . . . . . . . . 160

True-born Irishman, The
(Macklin), (see The Irish

Fine Lady) 107

True So_i of Erin, A (see The

Nationalist) . .
Trust to Luck (Clarke) . . 232
Turn of the Road, The

(" Mayne ") 282

Turn of the Tide, The (Cousins) 258

Turtle Doves 223

Twenty-five (Lady Gregory) . . 260
Twin Rivals, The (Farquhar). . 163
Twinkle in Ireland's Eye, A

(Ryan) 274

Twisting of the Rope, The

(Lady Gregory) . . . . 264

Two to One (Clements) . . 208

U.
Ulster Hero, The (Whitbread) 225
Uncle Pat (Moylan) . . . . 299

Unicorn from the Stars, The

(Lady Gregory and Yeats), 251
Up for the Green (MacManus) 298

V.

Victorian Cross, The (Whit-
bread) 224

358

INDEX TO PLAYS.

W.

Wager, The (Lancaster) . . 188

Waiting Game, The (Tearle). . 311
Wake of the People, The (Ryan) 306
Warden of Galway, The

(Groves) 180

Wearing of the Green ; or,

The Lover's Leap (Downey) 215
Wearin' o' the Green, The

(Howard and Mackey) . . 238
Wearing of the Green (Howard) 238
Wearing of the Green, The

(Weldon) 242

Wearin' o' the Green, The (Mat-
thews) 238

Wearing of tlie Green, The . . 222
Well of the Saints, The (Synge) 267
West's Awake, The (Muldoon) 314
West Briton's Romance, The

(Lowry) 305

West End {see The Irish Heiress)
West Indian, The (Cumberland) 1 68
West Wind, The (Kelly) . . 317
Wexford (Conyers) . . . . 228

Wexfo d Wells (Conoannon) . . 1 64
What a Blunder (Hohnan) . . 173
What Happened to Hooley

(Conyngham) . . . . 242

What News from Bantry Bay ?

(M'Laren) 175

" What the Butler Saw " (Parry
and Mouillot), [see While the

Cat's Away) 278

What the Public Wants (Ben-
nett) 296

Wheel o' Fortune, The (Murray) 295
When the Dawn is Come

(MacDonagh) . . . . 293
When Wexford Rose (Bourke) 305
When Wexford Rose (Kehoe) 311
Where There is Nothing (Yeats) 251
White Boys of Kerry, The
(Grattan) 185

White Boys, The (Grattan),
{see The Rebel Chief) . . 185

White Cockade, The (Lady
Gregory) . . . . . . 261

White Devil, The (Webster).. 161

White Feather, The (" Ray ") 297

White Horse of the Peppers,
The (Lover) 177

White Quaker, The ;' or, The
Village Alarmist . . . . 191

Who do they take me for ?
(Morton) 103

Wliore of Babylon, The (Decker) ICO

Wicklow Gold Mines (see Wiok-
low Mountains)

Wicklow Mountains ; or. Gold
in Ireland (O'Keeffe)

Wicklow Rose, The (Reece and
Allen)

Widow's Curse, The (Hogan). .

Widow Dempsey's Funeral,
The (Grattan)

Wild Irish Boy, The (H.
O'Grady)

Willy Reilly (Brady) . .

Willy Reilly; or. The Fair
Lady of Boyle (Coyne and
Whitbread)

Willy Reilly

Wife Well Managed, A (Cent-

livre) . .
With the Wild Geese (Harty) . .
Wizard of Wicklow ; or. Harle-
quin and the Magic Ladder
(Pitt)

Wooing of Emer, The (MaoSwi-

ney)

Woman of Seven Sorrow.', The

(Macmanus) . .
Workhouse Ward, The (Lady
Gregory), {see The Poor-
house)

Wren Boys, The ; or The
Mount of Peril (Wilks)

171

171

222
314

176

220
211

278
202

164
305

191

304

275

187

VI.— INDEX TO PLAYS (AUTHOES).

A.

Addebley (Fred)

.. 2ie

Adye-Oubban (Geobgina) . . 235

" m:'

.. 269

Akhukst (W. a. V.)

.. 211

AWKED (E. p.)

.. 297

"Allen" (P. M.)

See Ed-

MUND Downey

.. 300

Allen (Iba) . .

.. 222

Allen (G. B.) . .

.. 200

Amherst (J. H.)

.. 211

Archer (J.)

. . .

Argyll (Duke or

). See

Lorne

Arnold (S. J.)

..172

Arnold (Dr.) . .

.. 172

Art (H.)

.. 240

ASHTON (Robert)

.. 166

AUDRAN (E.) . .

..231

Aylmbr (Babby)

.'. 215

B.

Bali-our (Miss Mary) . . 175
Bancroft. See George Play-
dell . .

Barden (HtTGH) . . . . 299

Barlow (Jane) . . . . 313

Barney (Master) .. ..321

Barrett (M.) 197

Babby (Rev. Michael) . . 264

Babtholeytts (A. O'D.) . . 274

Bateman (Prank) . . . . 238

Bayly (Thomas Haynes) . . 179

Baynes (Eustace) . . . . 312

Beaumabchais . . .. ..164

Benedict (Sir Jules)
Bennett (Arnold) . .
Bebenger (Mbs. Oscab)
Beenabd (W. B.)
BiBBY (Thomas)
Bidwell (Pateick) . .
Birmingham (Geobgb A.)

Bishop ( ) . .

Blaney (Chables C.)
Blunt (Wilfred Soawen)
BOGUE (J. R.) ..
Bond (Stephen) '
Booth (Eva Gobe)
Bottle (Joshua T. )
Boshelle (S.E. M.)
BouciOAULT (Dion)
bourke (p. j.)
Boyle (William)

BOZZELLI (SiGNOB)

Brady (E. P.) . .

Brady (P.)

Brahain (H. ) . .

Branson (W. S.)

Brophy. See " R. P. Ray

Brough (William)

Brougham (John)

Bbuske (Jacque)

Buchanan (Robert)

BUCKSTONE (J. B.)

BuBKB (James)

Buekhead (Henry)

BuRNAND (Sib Peed C.

Bubnett (Frances Hodgson)

Burns (Tom) . .

Butler (O'Brien)

Butler (Mary E. L. )

Byrne (M.)

Byron (Henry J.)

360

INDEX TO PLAYS.

0.

Cahill (W. B.) .. .. 209

Caldbron ( ) . . . . 197

Campbell (Joseph) . . . . 277

Campbell (Kev. John) . . 289

Capel (Georqe) . . . . 223

Cableton (William) . . 190

Cakleton (John L.) . . . . 320

Caeb (Joseph W. Comyns) . . 280
Cablyle (Rita) . . . . 241

Casey (W. F.) .. .. 288

Cassidy (James Rice) . . 238

Cbntliveb (Mrs. Susannah) 164
Chesson (Nora Hopper) . . 270

Chute (J. C.) 217

Clarke (C. A.) . . 232, 302

Clarke (Joseph J. C.) . . 322

Claeke (Lady Olivia) . . 175

Clbaby (Thomas S.) . . . . 221

Clements (A.) . . .. 208

Clive (Mrs. Cathebine) . . 168

Code (H. B.) 174

CoGHLAN (Charles) . . . . 213

Coleman (John) . . . . 241

Collier (William) . . . . 185
Collins (J. P.) . . . . 208

CoLLissoN (W. Houston) . . 230
Colman (George), the elder. . 167
Colmau (George), the younger 173
CoLUM (Padbaic) . . . . 265

CoNCANEN (Matthew) . . 164

CONNELL (NORBYS) . . . . 291

" CoNNELL " (Henry) . . 270

Connor (Barry) . . . . 214

CONYEBS (P. N.) . . .. 228

Conyngham (P. T.) .. ..242

CooKB (Fbed) 209

Cooke (N. T.) 179

CoRKBKY (Daniel) . . . . 294
CoBEi (Olaeence C.) . . . . 241

Costbllo (Miss Mary) . . 237

Count ( ) 206

Cowley (Mrs.) . . . . 170

Cousins (James H.). See

Semus O'Cuisin

Cox (Waltbe) . . . . 176

Coyne (J. G.) 186

Coyne (Steeling) . . . . 199

Coyne (Gaedineb) . . . . 278

Ceeameb (Auguste) . . . . 212

Crokeb (Mrs. B. M.) . . . . 296

Ceoker (Thomas Crofton) . . 178

Ceonan (Dinal) . . . . 308

Cbook (John) 235

Ceoss (J. C.) 173

Ceowne (John) . . . . 163

CUMBBBLAND (RiCHAED) . . 168

Cunningham (Dr. p. T.) ..321
Cunningham (P. J.) . . . . 242
Cutts (J.) 165

D.

Daoee (H.) .. .. ..216

Dance (Geoege) . . . . 235

Daeling (S. Geenvillb) . . 315
Davidson (Anthony) . . 320

Davies (Hubeet Heney) . . 269
Dawson (Chaeles) . . . . 216

Day (Miss R.) 314

Dekkee (Thomas) . . . . ICO
Denbigh (Lewis) . . . . 229
Dbnvie (John) . . . . 281

DiBDiN (T.) 182

Dibdin (C.) 190

DiGGBs (West) . . . . 218

Dix (B. M.) See " Ruther-
roRD "

DoBBS (P.) 169

DoRAN (P. G.) .. .. 316

Douglas (John) . . . . 238

Downey (Edmund) . . . . 227

Downey (L.) 215

Downey ( ) . . . . 301

Doyle (Arthur Conan) 243, 266
Doyle (Thomas F.) . . . . 210
Dukes (Ashley) . . . . 306
Duncan (James) . . . . 265
Dutnell (Martin) . . . . 210

INDEX TO PLAYS.

361

E.

Bdgewokth (Maria) . . . . 175

Edwakds (JrrLiAN) . . . . 237

Egan (Pierce). . .. .. 183

Eloar (Sir Edward). . . . 219

Ervine (St. John G.) . . 309

Esmond (H. V.) .. .. 289

EsposiTO (Siqnor M.) 258, 277

P.

Pagan (J. B.) . .
Fahy (Prancis Arthur)
Palconer (Edmund) . .
Parquhar (George) . .
Perguson (Sir Samuel)
Pield (Nathaniel) . .
Pitzgerald (Dan)

PiTZGERALD (JoHN DaVID)

Pitzgerald (Preston)
Pitzmaurice (George)
Pitzpatriok (Nora) . .
Ployd (W. B.)
Forbes (James)
Forbes (Hon. Mrs. ) . .
Ford (Joseph). .
Ford (John) . . ■
Fox (Max)

Fraser (Julia Agnes)
Prece (Maurice de) . .
French (W. Percy) . .

, . 254
. 207
. 202
. 163
, . 307
. 161
, . 243
, . 201
.. 174
. . 285
. . 289
. . 203
. . 294
. . 233
. . 282
. . 162
. . 273
. . 208
. . 208
. . 230

I'

G.

Gardiner (R.)..

.. 309

Garrick (David)

109, 209

George (G. H.)

.. 208

German (Edward) .

.. 255

Gilbert (Frances) .

.. 255

Gilbert (T,ady)

.. 280

Gilbert (IiEwis)

.. 239

Gilbert (W. S.)

.. 212

Gillette (William) . . . . 243
GiRALDi (Giovanni Battistb).

See " CiNTHRO " . . , . 159

Glengall (Lord) . . . . 170

Glenville (Mrs.) .. .. 310

Glover (Professor) . . . . 213

Godfrey (G. W.) .. .. 217

Gomersall (W.) ' .. ..222

See Robert

Good (J. W.)

Harding
Gordon (W.)
Gore (Mrs. C.)
Gould (Pred)
Grange (A. Demain)
Grattan (H. P.)
Graves (Alfred Percival)
Graves (Arnold)
Green (P. W.)
Greenbank (Percy) . .
Gbegan (James)
Gregory (Lady)
Grey (Alen) . .
Griffith (Amyas)
Grover (J. Holmes) . .
Groves (Rev. Edward)
Guinan (John)
GuRNBY (Edmund) . .
Gustav (F.)
GwYNN (Stephen)

H.

222

183

234

255

185

258

293

.. 216

.. 256

.. 307

.. 260

.. 239

.. 168

.. 198

.. 180

236,315

.. 230

.. 199

.. 279

Haines (J. T.)..

.. 181

Halliday (A.). .

.. 202

Hall (Mrs. S. C.)

.. 182

Hamilton (Henry)

.. 223

Hamilton (John)

.. 27C

Hamilton (C. J.)

.. 321

Hannay (J. O.). See

George

A. Birmingham

Hanly (John)

.. 304

Harding (Robert)

.. 289

Harty (Hamilton)

.. 305

Harvey (F.) ..

.. 230

362

INDEX TO PLAYS.

Haydon (John S.) . . . . 237

Haywabd (A.) 216

Haywood (Thomas) .. ..101

Hazlewood (C. H.) . . . . 205

Head (Richakd) . . . . 163

HioKEY {Patrick) . . . . 298

HiLUEK (Mirabel) . . . . 290

HippisLEY (John) . . . . 165

HoBSON (Bitlmeb) . . . . 273

Hoffman (A. S.) .. .. 321

HoGAN (Patkiok) . . . . 314
Hood (Captain Basil) 2S5, 274

Holman (J. G.) . . . . 173

HowAKD (Alfred) . . . . 188

Howard (Dalton) . . . . 238

Howard (Sik Robert) . . 163

Howard (Wai/ter) . . . . 238

Howe (H. B.) 206

Howe (J. B.) 207

Howe (J. J.) 50

Hughes (Thomas) . . . . 160

Humphries (Alexander) . . 300
Humphreys (Mrs. Desmond).

See " Rita ". .

HuRsoN (George J.) . . . . 305
Hyde (Dr. Douglas) 259, 203, 264

Hyde ( ) 187

I.

Irwin (Father)
Ives (Malcolm C.)

J.

199, 290
.. 312

Jackman (Isaac)

.. 170

Jabman (Fred)

.. 254

Jay (Harriet) . .

.. 219

Jessop (G. H.)..

.. 256

Johnstone (J. R.)

.. 201

Johnstone (Robert) .

.. 269

Jones (Guy) . .

.. 235

Jones (Sidney)

.. 256

JoNsoN (Ben) . .

.. 161

K.

Kaenders (Rev. P.) . .

Kearney (Peter) . . . . 306

Kehoe (P.) 311

Kelleher (D. L.) .. .. 299

Kelly (Hugh) . . .. .. 169

Kelly (Patrick) . . . . 169

" Kelly (Paddy)." See Al-
fred Howard

Kenny (J.) 188

Kertland (William). . .. 184

KiRWAN (Patrick) . . . . 269

Knight (Thomas) . . . . 172

Knowles (James Sheridan) 187

Knox (J. Armory) . . . . 228

Kuhnb (J. Gustav) . . . . 199

L.

La Brandt (Joseph) . . . . 318
Lancaster (E. R.) .. ..188
Langbridge (Rosamund) .. 284
Laechet (John F.) . . . . 269

Lavery (J.) 215

Leamy (Edmund) . . . . 281

Le Fanu (Mrs. A.) . . . . 174

Le Fanu (Peter) . . . . 170

Leonard (Herbert) . . . . 239

Letts (Miss W. M.) . . . . 285

Levey (John) . . . . . . 210

LiNDO (Frank) . . , . 242

Lloyd (Arthur) . . . . 226

Logan (J. D.) 211

Lord (T. W.) 213

Logue (J. D.) 212

LONGHAYE . . . . , . 215

LoRNE (Marquis of) . . . . 241

Lover (Samuel) . . 177, 178

LowRY (A.) 305

Lynam (Capt. W. F.) . . 206

Lyon (Mr.) 174"

Lysteb (Fred) .. 226,323

INDEX TO PLAYS.

363

M.
M'Alisteb (Alesteb)
MoCaethy (Daniel) . .
McCabthy (JtJSTiN Huntley)
McClelland (Harry)
M'Ctjnn- (Hamish)
McDekmott (John) . .
McGloughldst (Alfred)
MaoLoughlin (J.)
MgMantjs (Miss L.) . .
MacManus (Setjmas) . .
MaoNamaba (Gerald) 272,
McNeil (James)
McNevin (Thomas) . .
MCSWINEY (T. J.)
McSwiNEY (Paul)
Macarthy (E.)
Macarthy (Harry) . .
Maoauley (John)
Maobeady (W. )
MacCabthy (Brian) . .
MacDonaqh (Thomas)
Maohebne (S. J.)

M'Labbn (F.)

McLabbn (John)

Mackay (Joseph William) . .

Maokey (Chalmers) . .

Mackey (Pbnton)

Macklin (Chables) . .

Mabdeb (F.) . .

Mageath (Anna Jane)

Mahoney (Riohabd) . .

Maltby (Alfbbd)

Maltby (C. a.)

Mangan (Henry). See " H.

CONNELL " . .

Manning (Michael A.)
Manning (W. ) . .
Mansfield (J. S.)
Maol (Conan)
Mabkham (Thomas) . .
Mabkievicz (Casimib Dunin)

Mabsden (Fbbd)
Marshall (Frank A. )

284

232

301

221

241

168

308

309

287

274

298

176

180

303

217

188

321

170

180

311

■293

215

175

314

218

238

229

167

239

226

235

242

243

218
231
207
273
277
289,
303
236
218

Mabtyn (Edward) . . . . 252
Mason (A. E. W.) .. .. 302
Matthews (Edward C.) .. 238
Maugham (William Somer-
set) 286

" Ma YNB " (Rutherford) ... 282
Mendez (Moses) . . . . 165
MiOHBLBtjRNE ( John) . . .. 165

Mill (John) 233

MiLLiKEN (Richard Alfred) 174
Milligan (Miss Alice L.) . . 253
Mitchell (Susan L.) . . 316

MoLLOY (J. Fitzgerald) . . 49
MONCJIIEFF (W. T.) . . . . 186

Monkhouse (Harry) . . . . 232

Montague (C. E.)
Montgomery (H. W.)
montgomeby (j. j. ) .
MooEE (Augustus M.)
MooBE (Frankfort) .
MooBE (George)
MooBB (Thomas)
MoBAN (Jambs)
MOBGAN (Mrs. Nash)
MoBROW (George). See ''Ger-
ald MacNamara " . .
Morton (J. M.)
Moss (Hugh) . . . . 227,

MOUILLOT (FbBDEBICk)
MOULTEB ( )

MoYLAN (Thomas King)
MuLDOON (John)
MuLDOON (Joseph Malachi)
MuBDOCK (Mortimer)
MuBpHY (Arthur)
Murphy (Mrs. Louisiana) . .
Murphy (Michael John)
Murray (David Christie) . .
Murray (Tom E.)

MUBBAY (T. C.)

N.
Neil (J. Crawford) . . . . 318
Newton (Henry I.) . . . . 321

Nugent (James Fitzgerald) ^14

.. 203

.. 309

.. 220

.. 233
255, 242

.. 174

.. 297

.. 270

178
233
278
173
298
314
314
215
166
228
221
240
312
295

364

INDEX TO PLAYS.

O.

O'Beirnb (J.)

.. 270

O'BOYLAN (B. M.)

.. 322

O'BKIEN (FiTZ JAMES) . .

.. 198

O'Brien (MAI^Y)

.. 300

O'Beien ( )

.. 190

" O'Connor (Barry)."

Sea

William O'Connor

O'Connor (Bartholomew-

.. 208

O'Connor (T.)

.. 222

O'Connor (William) . .

.. 214

O'CoNNELL (Daniel) . .

.. 221

O'Cuisnsr (Seumas)

.. 257

'Donovan (Michael)

.. 280

O'DWYER (Bobert) . .

.. 296

O'E. (J.)

.. 300

O'Freil (Morgan). Sea

A.

MoLOUGHLIN

O'Grady (Hubert) . .

.. 219

O'Gbady (Standish) . .

.. 256

O'Hare (F. J.)

.. 270

0'Heer(P. J.)

.. 277

O'Keeffe (J.) . .

170, 171

O'KeLLY (SErMAS)

.. 286

O'Kelly (Rev. Thomas)

.. 296

O'Kelly (Sean)

.. 300

O'Leary (Con)

.. 301

O'LouGHUN (John) . .

.. 278

O'LOUGKT.TKT (GeRALD)

.. 288

O'Meaba (Daniel A.)

.. 173

O'Neill (Norman)

.. 284

O'RouRKE (Vincent).

See

Edmund Falconer

, ,

O'Shea (John Augustus)

.. 211

O'Shea (Patrick)

.. 312

O'SuLLivAN (Gerald)

.. 204

O'TooLE (Lorcan)

.. 286

OULTON (Walley Chamber-

lain)

.. 172

Overton (Charles) . .

.. 233

OxENFORD (Edward)..

.. 304

Oxenfohd (John)

.. 204

Parkill. See " Lewis Pur-
cell "

Parry (Edward F.) . . . . 278

Partridge (Felix) . . . . 281

Patmore (W. J.) .. .. 237

Patterson (W. M.) . . . . 319

Paul (William) . . . . 318

Peaks (R. B.) 178

Peaesb (M. B.) .. 302,190

Pearse (P. H.) .. .. 309

Pelissier (W. H.) .. ..234

Pblzer (Joseph) . . . . 242

Pepper (George) . . . . 169

Phlllips (Watts) . . . . 200

Phillips (William) . . . . 164

Pilgrim (Jambs) . . . . 186

PiNERo (Arthur Wing) . . 227

PiTOU (Augustus) . . . . 235

Pitt (Dibdin) . . . . . . 101

PrrT (W. H.) 207

Planche (J. R.) .. .. 178

" Playdbll (George) " . . 302

Pleon (Haiiry) . . . . 223

PococK (T.) 179

Potter (Paul M.) .. ..236

Power (Tyrone) . . . . 184

PuRCELL (Lewis) . . . . 272

PuBCBLL (R. j.) . . . . 316

R.

Ransley (H. Gerald)
Ray (R. j.) . .
Raymond (R. J.)
Reads (Charles)
Redgrave (Roy)
Redmond (Johanna)
Reece (R.)
Reed (Joseph)
Reeve (Percy)
Reeve (Wybert)
Rbili.y (Miss Anne)

INDEX TO PLAYS.

365

Reynolds (GEORaE) Nugent 172
REYiroij)s (Walter) . . . . 229

Richardson (H.) .. ..212

Rickey (Sam) 321

Rita (Mrs. Desmond Hum-
phreys) . . . . . . 239

Roach (James C.) .. .. 228

Roberts (George) . . . . 232

Robertson (Miss Le Fanxf) 231
Robertson (T. W.) .. ..207

Robinson (J.) 221

Robinson (Nugent) . . . . 207

Robinson (Percy) . . . . 298
Robinson (S. L.) . . . . 292

RoBSON (H.) 172

RODWELL (G. H.) .. .. 176

Rolleston (T. W.) .. ..258

RowE (G. F.) 223

Russell (George). See"M" 269
Russell (T. O'Neill) . . 273

" Rutherford (John) " .. 281

Ryan (Fred) 258

Ryan (Joseph) . . . . 274
Ryan (W. P.) 306

S.

Sayre (Theodore Baet) . . 239
Scott (Miss M. P.) . . . . 317

"Scribble (William)" .. 204
Sedgwick (John L.) . . . . 320

Segar (R. F.) 229

Selby (C.) 193

Selden (Edgar) . . . . 234
Shadwell (Charles) . . .. 164
SHADWEii (Thomas) . . . . 163
Shakespeare (T. P.) . . . . 307
Shakespeare (William) . . 160
Shaw (George Bernard) . . 271
Sheridan (John F.) .. ..237
Sheridan (Richard Bbins-

ley) 169

Sheridan (Thomas) 165

Shine (John L.) .. ..240

Shirley (James) . . . . 162

Sidney (W.) 211

Sims (George R.) . . . . 241

Slaughter (Walter) . . 278

Smith (Lita) 234

Smith (S. Theyre) . . . . 233

Smyth (William). See " Wil-
liam Scribble " . . . . 204

Stanford (Sib Charles Vil-
liebs) . . . . . . 236

Stanhope (B.) .. .. 212

Staitlby (F. a.) . . . . 310

Stanley (Herbert J.) . . 242

Staunton (M, J.) .. .. 298

Stephens (James) . . . . 317

Stephens (Robert Neilson) 277
Sterling (Edward) . . 197, 207
Stevens (G. A.) . . . . 165

Strange (Stanislaus) . . 237

Stuart (C.) 172

Stuart (G. V.) 312

Sullivan (Arthur) . . . . 255
Sullivan (J. P.) .. ,, 230

Sutherland (E. G.) See

" John Rutherford ''
SwETE (E. Lyall) . . . . 277
Syngb (J. M.) 267

Tarpby (William Kingsley) 284

Taylor (Chables H.)
Taylor (Tom)
Tearle (Godfrey)
Thomas (Augustus)
TiGHE (Michael J.)
Tours (Frank)
Towers (Edward)
Travers (William)
Travis (W. J.)
Tbivin (Edward)
Turner (Montague)
Tynan (Brandan)
Tynan (Kathebinb)

256
.. 198
.. 311
.. 255
.. 303

.. 214

206, 216

.. 208

.. 240
.. 259
.. 293

36G

.INDEX TO PLAYS.

u.

Ulgae (Gladys)
Upton (William C.)

. . 270
, . 227

Vane (Sutton) .. ..232

Vabian (John and Suseen) 316

Veenon (0.) 239

Vernon (H. M.) . . . . 310

W.

Waddell. See EtTTHExrOKD

" Mayne " . .
Wagner (Richard) . . . . 205

Waldkon (W. R.) .. ..209

Walker (G. Oastbzre) . . 240

Wall6 (W.) 268

Waller (John Francis,

LL.D.) 197

Wallerton (Miles) . . . . 255
Wallworth (T. A.) .. ..221

Walsh (R. G.) 281

Ward (Montague A.) .. 235

Waters (C.) ..
Watson (Dr. J. S. W
Webster (John)'

Webster ( )

Weldron (M.). .
Werner (C. J.)
Wheeler (Mrs.)
Whitbread (J. W.)
Whitbread (Nellie)
White (Boston) '
Whitlock (Charles)
WiLKS (Thomas Eoerton)
Williams (C. Morton)
Williams (W.) . .
Wilson (Charles Henry)
Wilson (C. W.)
Wilton (Kate)
Wilton (M. J.)
Wood (George)
Woods (Dr. Robert H.)
worthington (e. k.)
Wyles (Thomas F.) . .

Yeats (W. B.)..

.. 309
.. 221
.. 161
.. 187
.. 242
.. 216
.. 284

224, 278
.. 277
.. 308
.. 242

180, 187
.. 307
.. 216
.. 174
.. 233
.. 222
.. 321
.. 192
.. 233
.. 307
.. 300

247

Vll.— INDEX TO PLAYS (SUBJECTH).

BiLINGTTAL PLAYS.

Bursting of the Bubble, The
(Hyde)

Doctor, The (O'Beirne)

Exile, The (O'Toole) . .

Great Change, The (Partridge)

Gliocas (O'Shea)

Last of the Desmonds, The
(MilUgan)

Teacher from Fairyland, The
(Ryan)

Emigration.

Emigrant's Daughter, The
(Raymdnd) . .

Emigration (Connor) . .

Emigration (O'Grady)

Exiles of Erin, The (Buchanan)

Irish Emigrant, The (Broug-
ham) . .

FoirNDBD ON Novels, etc.

Charles O'Malley (Maearthy)
Charles O'Malley (Moore) . .
Colleen Bawn, The (Bouoicault)
Colleen Bawn Settled at Last

(Brough and Halliday)
Collegians, The

Eily O'Connor (Haynes)

Eily O'Connor ; or. The Foster

Brother (Wilks)
Fardorougha, (Stanley)
Fardorougha, (Magrath)
Fardorougha, (Downey)
Fotheringay, The (Kirwan) . .
French Huzzar (Whitbread) . .
Handy Andy (Floyd) . .
Handy Andy (Montgomery) . .
Irish Dragoon, The (Whitbread)
Jealous Wife, The (Colman) . .
Lily of Killarney, The (Oxen-
ford and Benedict). .
Mickey Free (Wilton). .
Miss Eileen O'Connor (Byron)
Oonagh ; or. The Lovers of

Lisnamona (Falconer)
Orange and Green (MacManus)
Peep o' Day (Falconer)
Peg the Rake (Rita and Grey)
Rory O'More (Whitbread) . .
Sally Kavanagh ; or, A Tale

of Tipperary . .
Willy Reilly (Whitbread and
Coyne)

Willy Reilly

Willy Reilly (Brady) . .

Historical — [Before 1700.]

Bailiff of Ballyfoyle, The
Battle of Castleknook,

The

368

INDEX TO PLAYS.

Battle of Aughrim, The (Ash

ton) . .
Before Clonmel (Walsh)
Boyne Water, The (Buekstone
Brian Brou (Bottle) . .
Brian Boru (Strange and Ed

wards)
Brian Boroihme (O'Meara)
Brian Boroihme (Knowles)
Brian Boroihme (Pelt) . .
Brian of Banba (Milligan)
Brian of Banba (Hodson)
Connor O'Nial (Longhaye)
Daughter of Oonagh, The (Mil

ligan)

Dervorgilla (Gregory) . .
Kaster Fires on the Hill of Slane
Escape of Red Hugh, The (Mil-
ligan)

Four Pretenders of London,

The (Haywood)
Fugitive, The (McLoughlin) . .
Gerald of Kildare (Bibby) . .
Henri Quatre . .
Hibernia's Triumph . .
Hugh O'Neill (Maol) . .
Hugh Roe O'Donnell (O'Grady)
Irish Rebellion, The . .
. Ireland Preserved (Miohel-

bume)
King Brian Boroihme . .
King O'Neil; or. The Irish

Brigade (Gore)
Kincora (Gregory)
Lady Clanoarty (Taylor)
Last Irish King, The (Russell)
Mayor of Galway, The (Tighe)
Mayor of Rochester, The (Mon-

criefi)
Meagher of the Sword (Alfred)
O'Donnell's Gross (MoManus)
O'Flynn, The (M'Carthy) . .
On the King's Threshold

(Yeats)

Outlaws, The (O'Grady)

Patriot King, The (Dobbs) . .
Rapparee, The (O'Loughlin). .
Rapparee ; or. The Treaty of

Limerick (Boucicault)
Rotheric O'Connor (Shadwell)
Round Tower, The (Cro_s) . .
Royal Voyage, The . .
Rebellion Defeated (Cutts) . .
Red Hugh (Russell) . .
Sarsfield (Whitbread) . .
Shane the Proud (Boyle)
Siege of Limerick, The (Barry)
Silken Thomas (Bibby)
Sword of Dermot, The (Cousins)
St. Patrick's Eve ; or, The

Order of the Day (Power)..
St. Patrick at Castleknock

(Campbell) , .
Strongbow (French and CoUis-

.son) . .
Tara (Glover) . .
Warden of Galway, The

(Groves)
White Cockade, The (Gregory)
White Horse of the Peppers,

The (Lover)

With the Wild Geese (Harty) . .

[Eighteenth CENTtTKY].

Dick Sheridan (Buchanan) . .

Edmund Burke (Sayre)

Goldsmith (Moore)

Green on the Cape, The (Mil-
ligan)

Masks and Faces (Reade and
Taylor)

Mr. Sheridan (XJlgar)..

Oliver Goldsmith (Thomas) . .

Princess Clementina, The (Play-
dell and Mason)

Tom Moore (Sayre)

Tom Moore (Walsh) . .

Stella and Vanessa (Graves) . .

Swift and Vanessa (Bartho-
leyus)

INDEX TO PLAYS.

369

['98 PLAYS.]

Ccmspiracy of Dublin, The
(Gustav)

Croppy Boy, The (AHred) . .

Daughter oilreland, The (Hur-
son) . .

Father Murphy

French are on the Sea, The
(MilUgan)

Harp that Once, The (MilUgan)

Insurgent Chief, The (Whit-
bread)

Lord Edward or '98 (Whit-
bread)

Lord Edward Fitzgerald
(O'Brien)

Memory of the Dead, The
(Markievicz) . .

Old Land, The (Johnston)

Paddy Carey (Power). .

Patriot's Wife, The (Jarman)

Patriot's Priest, The (Staun-
ton) . .

Pro Patria (Redmond)

Rebels, The (Fagan) . .

Renegade, The (O'Hara)

Sham Squire, The (Whitbread)

Shamus O'Brien (Stanford and

Shamus O'Brien (Maeder and
Vernon)

Shamus , ,

Spy of the Glen, The (Allan) . .

Theobald Wolfe Tone (Whit-
bread)

■Ulster Hero, The (Whitbread)

Wearing of the Green, The
(Matthews) . .

Wearing of the Green, The
(Howard and Maokey)

Wearing of the Green (Howard)

West's Awake, The (Muldoon)

Wexford (Conyers)

What News from Bantry Bay?

(M'Laren)
When Wexford Rose (Bourke)
When Wexford Rose (Keogh)
White Boys, The
Wren Boys, The (Wilks)

[1803 PI,AYS].

Falsely True (Redmond)
In the Days of the Union
Rebels, The (O'Boylan)
Robert Emmet (Pilgrim)
Robert Emmet, the Irish Mar-
tyr (O'SuUivan)
Robert Emmet, the Irish Pa-
triot of 1803

Robert Emmet (Digges)
Robert Emmet (Marshall) . .
Robert Emmet (Gwynn)
Robert Emmet (Tynan)
Robert Emmet (Mangan)
Robert Emmet (Cunningham),
Robert Emmet (Clarke)
Robert Emmet (Bouoicault)

[Latek.]

Daniel O'Connell ; or, Kerry's

Pride and Munster's Glory. .

Daniel O'Connell (Robinson). .

[Fenian Plays]

Call to Arms, The (Kearney) . .
Fenian, The (O'Grady)
Fenian's Death, The (Moran). .
Shaughraun, The (Boucicault)

[1881.]

Dunmore ; or. The Days of the
Land League

370

INDEX TO PLAYS.

Gablio Legend.

Boy Deeds of Cuchulain, The . .
Buried Life of Deirdre, The

(Gore-Booth)
Countess Cathleen, The (Yeats)
Cuchulain (Upton)
Cuchulain (Varian)
Destruction of the Hostel, The

(Colum)
Deirdre (Yeats)
Deirdre of the Sorrows (Synge)
Deirdre (Russell)
Deirdre (RoUeston)
Deirdre (Ferguson)
Diarmuid (Lome and M'Cunn)
Diarmuid and Grania (Yeats

and Moore) . .
Eithne (O'Dwyer and O'Kelly)
Fand of the Fair Cheek (Blunt)
Pin Maccoul (Boucioault)
Pionn and Tara (Lome and

Drysdale)
Fionn (O'Grady)
Green Helmet, The (Yeats) . .
Hermit and the King, The

(Corkery)
Hour Glass, The (Yeats)
Kathleen-ni-Houlihan (Yeats)
Land of Heart's Desire, The

(Yeats)

Last Warrior of Coole, The

(McSwiney)

Last Feast of the Fianna, The

(Millig an) . . . . '

Little Cowherd of Slainge, The

(Campbell) . .
Lost Saint, The (Hyde and

Gregory)
Miracle of the Corn, The

(Colum)

Naming of Cuchulain, The

(Ferguson) . .
Oisin in Tir na nOg (Milligan)
Oisin and Patrick (Milligan). .

Oisin the Hero (Varian)

On Baile's Strand (Yeats) . .

Pagan, The (Purcell) . .

Return of Lugh, The . .

Sea Swan, The (Butler and
Chesson)

Shadowy Waters, The (Yeats)

Sleep of the King, The (Cousins)

St. Patrick's Purgatory (Calde-
ron) . .

Sun God, The (McManus) . .

Tinker and the Fairy, The
(Hyde) .. ;.

Transformation of Fionn, The
(O'Grady)

Tristan and Isolda (Wagner) . .

Tristran and Iseult (Carr)

Triumph of Maeve, The (Gore-
Booth)

Wooing of Emer, The (McSwi-
ney)

Peasant Plays.

Best of a Bad Bargain, The

(Redmond) . .
Birthright (Murray) . .
Building Fund, The (Boyle).
Burden, The (Worthington).
Clancy Name, The (Robinson
Cross Roads, The (Robinson).
Country Dressmaker, The (FitZ'

maurice)
Cuckoo's Nest, The (Guinan) .
Drone, The (Mayne) . .
Enthusiast, The (Purcell) .
Eyes of the Blind, The (Letts)
Family Failing (Boyle)
Fiddler's House, The (Colum)
Flame on the Hearth, The

(O'Kelly)

Pull Moon, The (Gregory) . .
Gaol Gate, The (Gregory) . .

INDEX TO PLAYS.

371

Hard-Hearted Man, The
(MaoManus) . . ' . .

Harvest (Robinson) . .

Homecoming, The (O'Kelly) . .

Honor's Choice (Redmond)

Hytiointh Halvey (Gregory).

Image, The (Gregory). .

In the Shadow of the Glen
(Synge)

Jackdaw, The (Gregory)

John Bull's Other Island
(Shaw)

Lad from Largymore, The
(MacManus) . .

Laud, The (Colmu) . . . .

Leading Road to Donegal, The
(MaoManus) . .

Leap Year in the West (Red-
mond)

Marriage, The (Hyde and Gre-
gory)

Matchmakers, The (Wheeler) . .

Matchmakers, The (O'Kelly). .

Magic Sieve, The (Hamilton). .

Mineral Workers, The (Boyle)

Naboolish (Moylan)

Over the Stile (Pearse)

Paid in his Own Coin (Moylan)

Pat Maher's Temptation (Pur-
ceU and Doran)

Piedish, The (Fitzmaurioe) . .

Playboy of the Western World,
The (Synge)

Pot of Broth, The (Yeats) . .

Red Turf (Mayne)

Resurrection of Dinny O'Dowd,
The (MaoManus) . .

•Rising of the Moon, The (Gre-
gory)

Saxon Shilling, The (Colum) . .
Shuiler's Child, The (O'Kelly)
Spell, The (Langbridge)
Spreading the News (Gregory)
Teig Corooran's Courtship (Gre-
gory)

Tinker's Wedding, The (Synge)
Troth, The (Mayne) . .
Turn of the Road, The (Mayne)
Twenty -five (Gregory) . .
Twisting of the Rope, The

(Hyde and Gregory)
Well of the Saints, The (Synge)
Wheel o' Fortune, The (Murray)
Workhouse Ward, The (Gre-
gory)

Town and City Life.

Eloquent Dempsey, The (Boyle)
Jerry-builder, The (Paul) . .
Laying of the Foundations, The

(Ryan)

Magnanimous Lover, The (Er-

ving)

Man Who Missed the Tide, The

(Casey)

Marriage of Julia Elizabeth,

The (Stevens)
Mixed Marriages (Brving)
Suburban Groove, The (Casey)
Thomas Muskerry (Colum) . .
Widow Dempsey's Funeral,

The (Cox) . .

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